The 39 Artworks of media Mosaic and containing the word pietro cavallini, mosaic, buildings, religious, 1300

Images of a small shrine with a conch-shaped ceiling, flanked by menorahs and Temple implements, became a symbol of the Temple that had been destroyed and was an expression of the yearning for redemption. These images, or parts of them, were rendered on the stone elements of buildings and on everyda...

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Leopold Forstner’s ceramics for decorating buildings can be considered exemplary of the “new fresco in material” (as Berta Zuckerkandl termed it) developed by this student of Karl Kager and Kolo Moser at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. Based on models from the world of Byzantine mosaics and on...

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This mosaic floor comes from the triclinium (dining room) of a Roman private house in Miletus, in Asia Minor. The square main picture is surrounded on three sides by outer fields decorated in simple geometrical patterns. Originally a little raised, these would have supported the dining couches. In t...

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