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2. 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. Mosaic today includes not just murals and pavements, but also ...

3. Emma Biggs - Wikipedia

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   Emma Biggs (born 1956) is a London-based mosaic artist and author of a number of standard textbooks on contemporary mosaic practice. Having completed the large public art project, "Made in England", based on the visual culture and ideology of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent (in the English midlands), her work became increasingly concerned with the ceramic industry and its social history.

4. Micromosaic - Wikipedia

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   Micromosaic brooch set in black glass, c. 1875, of the Pantheon Byzantine mosaic icon, 45 cm high, 13th century.. Micromosaics (or micro mosaics, micro-mosaics) are a special form of mosaic that uses unusually small mosaic pieces of glass, or in later Italian pieces an enamel-like material, to make small figurative images. [1]

5. Tessera - Wikipedia

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   Tessera. 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. A close up of the bottom left corner of the picture above. Close inspection of the full picture reveals the individual tesserae.

6. Byzantine mosaics - Wikipedia

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   Byzantine mosaics. 10th century mosaic of Virgin and Child on a gold ground in the former cathedral Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. Byzantine mosaics are mosaics produced from the 4th to 15th [1] centuries in and under the influence of the Byzantine Empire. Mosaics were some of the most popular [2] and historically significant art forms ...

7. I'm a Canadian who's lived in the US for 24 years. Here are ...

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   I miss the Tim Hortons Timbits, Lay's ketchup chips, and Kinder Surprise Eggs the most. The maple syrup I've bought in the US can't compare to what I've had in Canada. I wish there were more Tim ...