Fragment representing Saint Démétrios,
Byzantine era
Chased gold leaf sandwiched between two sheets
of glass (Inv. 195a RCh)
Photo : Alain Breyer
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The Byzantine Empire
The fame of the Byzantine mosaics from the 10th and
13th centuries extended way beyond the frontiers of
the Empire and they become a very important export.
The expertise of the Byzantine master glassmakers was
praised by the monk Theophilus, author in the first
half of the 12th century of the treaty - De Diversis
Artibus, which meticulously described the production
of vessels in coloured glass, decorated with polychrome
and gilded enamelled ornaments.
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