Category: Anastylosis

  • Pages from The 37 Nats, an artist book by Mary Griep

    October 25, 2022
    The nineteenth drawing in the Anastylosis Project takes a new direction -- an artist book about the Shwezigon Pagoda in…
  • Hmannan Yazawin (The Glass Palace) drawing by Mary Griep

    November 13, 2020
    The possibilities for multiple perspectives opened up by the drawing of Agios Dimitrios and the utilization of transparency in the…
  • Pitaka Taik drawing by Mary Griep

    November 13, 2019
    The Pitaka Taik, the “Library of Buddhist Scriptures” is the seventeenth drawing in the Anastylosis Project. The structure was built…
  • Palimpsest (Notre Dames de Chartres) drawing by Mary Griep

    October 13, 2019
    The first drawing of the Anastylosis Project was a study of Notre Dame de Chartres and as such is the…
  • October 21, 2018
    La Giralda was originally built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville, Spain during the Almohad dynasty. This…
  • Santa Maria de Assunta (Arab-Norman Cathedral) drawing by Mary Griep

    October 13, 2018
    For the fourteenth drawing in the Anastylosis Project I chose to draw the apse end of the cathedral, as it…
  • El Baptistero di San Giovanni drawing by Mary Griep

    December 18, 2017
    The Baptistry of St. John in Florence, Italy stands in the Piazza del Duomo and is one of the oldest…
  • The Marble Carpet (Basilica di San Marco) drawing by Mary Griep

    December 3, 2016
    The tessellated floor of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice is often described as “a marble carpet.” It was…
  • Franziskanerkirche drawing by Mary Griep

    December 9, 2012
    The tenth drawing in the series, completed while artist in residence for the City of Salzburg. This smaller single panel…
  • Agios Dimitrios drawing by Mary Griep

    December 3, 2011
    This is the building that blew away everything I thought I knew about decoration and pattern. The Byzantine idea about…