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Call Number: SC0817
Creator:
Salviatti & Co. (Venice, Italy)
Title: Stanford mosaic collection
Dates: circa 1900-1913
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet (5 boxes plus one oversize item)
Summary: Collection pertains to the design for mosaics to be installed in the Stanford Memorial Church and includes original oil paintings
and watercolors; hand colored photographs of designs; photographs of design paintings and of the finished mosaics in the Church;
and a workbook "Prezzo del lavoro Stanford" documenting the cost of the work on the mosaics. Many of the original paintings
in the collection were executed by Antonio Paoletti. Some of the pieces in the collection document work rejected by Jane L.
Stanford, including a design for the Church's facade.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection was purchased by Stanford University in 2005.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Stanford Mosaic Collection (SC0817). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The mosaics in the Memorial Church at Stanford University were designed and installed by the Venetian studio of Antonio Salviati
& Company.
Collection pertains to the design for mosaics to be installed in the Stanford Memorial Church and includes original oil paintings
and watercolors; hand colored photographs of designs; photographs of design paintings and of the finished mosaics in the Church;
and a workbook "Prezzo del lavoro Stanford" documenting the cost of the work on the mosaics. Many of the original paintings
in the collection were executed by Antonio Paoletti. Some of the pieces in the collection document work rejected by Jane L.
Stanford, including a design for the Church's facade.
Paoletti, Antonio.
Salviatti & Co. (Venice, Italy)
Stanford University. Memorial Church
Mosaics.