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2. Tessera - Wikipedia

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   Tesserae of a mosaic of doves drinking at a golden basin, 1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy. A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a square, used in creating a mosaic. It is also known as an abaciscus or abaculus.

3. Mosaic - Wikipedia

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   A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. [1] Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.

4. Coloring book - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Book containing line art, to which the user is intended to add color For other uses, see Coloring Book (disambiguation). Filled-in child's coloring book, Garfield Goose (1953) A coloring book is a type of book containing line art to which people are intended to add color using crayons ...

5. Roswall - Wikipedia

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   RosWall (2008) is an environmental art mosaic project located in Roswell, Georgia, United States, a northern suburb of the state capital of Atlanta.. The mosaic runs approximately 150 feet and began on a small portion of the wall and has continued to grow with the help of local groups including students of the nearby The Cottage School and local mosaic artist Donna Pinter.

6. Great Lillebonne mosaic - Wikipedia

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   A mosaic head supposedly from Lillebonne and preserved in the Musée d'Autun is a modern forgery, reflecting the practice of the period. [32] Several of the heads in the present work have the “same sweet, frozen expression, so characteristic”, and the plants and animals seem to have been little altered, according to Darmon. [ 32 ] "

7. Mosaics of Delos - Wikipedia

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   The composition of the Delos mosaics and pavements include simple pebble constructions, chip-pavement made of white marble, ceramic fragments, and pieces of tesserae. [2] [6] [13] The latter falls into two categories: the simpler, tessellated opus tessellatum using large pieces of tesserae, on average eight by eight millimeters, [14] and the finer opus vermiculatum using pieces of tesserae ...

8. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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   The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has among other relevant holdings 124 mediaeval (1000–1400 A.D.) objects bearing Islamic geometric patterns, [56] including a pair of Egyptian minbar (pulpit) doors almost 2 m. high in rosewood and mulberry inlaid with ivory and ebony; [57] and an entire mihrab (prayer niche) from Isfahan, decorated ...

9. Dionysus mosaic, Dion - Wikipedia

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   The mosaic artist used mosaic stones of different sizes and several dozens of shades of color to show details. He thereby gave his work the character of a painting. Surely he was inspired to his work by an important Hellenistic painting. Dionysus mask. Of high quality are also the masks under and above the central mosaic.