Mosaics and Early Christian Buildings
Mosaics played an important a role in the interiors of Early Christian buildings.
Mosaics
Inlay of small tiles or stones used for decoration of walls or floors.
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Mosaics of San Vitale in Ravenna
The Chancel of San Vitale
The mosaic decoration in the sanctuary of San Vitale is undoubtedly one of the most important monuments of medieval art that has come down to us.
Mosaic - Images created by setting small pieces of glass and stone in cement or plaster on a wall.
Mullion - A vertical post that divides a window into two or more parts.
Mosaic - Surface decoration for walls or floors formed of small pieces or tesserae of glass, stone, or marble set in a mastic. The design may be either geometrical or representational.
mosaic
A decoration created by setting small pieces of glass, stone, or marble in a matrix- often concrete.
Mosaic. Decorative design covering a large, flat surface - often a floor - made of inlay arranged in a regular pattern according to the form and colour of various stones used.
MOSAIC A picture or decorative design made by setting small coloured pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
Mosaic
the use of small pieces of glass, stone, or tile (tesserae), or pebbles to create an image on a flat surface such as a floor, wall, or ceiling.
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Mosaic Tiles:
Colorful natural stone tiles, usually sold in squares.
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Mosaics are designs made from small square pieces of glass or stone. The Romans used them for floors.
Mosaic / Tesserae
- decorative treatment of wall or floors composed of small stones, glass etc known as tesserae, after the individual pieces, tessera.
mosaic - a pattern resembling a mosaic
strand - a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
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A mosaic of St. Isaac Jogues in Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
A mosaic of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne in Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
All Saints Chapel by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.
Wood mosaic - A warm, resilient, decorative wood block flooring of strips of hardwood 7.5 mm thick and 115 x 25 mm, made up into squares, then put together in a basket weave pattern as panels 475 m square.
Cosmatesque style mosaics decorate twisted Solomonic columns at the Basilica of St. Paul cloister in Rome, Italy.
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See also ciborium (definition 1), paten, pxy Mosaic: A decoration created by setting small pieces of glass, stone, or marble in a matrix- often concrete.
Their masonry was more varied; they used bricks and concrete freely, as well as stone, marble, and mosaic. Use of the arch and vault introduced curved forms; curved walls produced a semicircular space, or apse, for terminating an axis.
A tendency has developed itself in the direction not merely of mosaic, but of carrying the glazier's art farther than has been done before and rendering landscapes and even figure subjects in unpainted glass.
mosaicultureMosaiculture is a French term for the use of bedding plants 'like a mosaic' to form patterns. The patterns could be geometrical or representational (eg butterflies). mosseryA Mossery is a collection of mosses.
This is where guests were greeted and usually consisted of a small mosaic on the floor around the impluvium. The atrium was also high ceilinged and often consisted of sparse furnishings to give the effect of a lot of space.
Tessellated pavementMosaic flooring, particularly Roman, made of tesserae, i.e. small cubes of glass, stone or brick.Tester(lit. head): Flat canopy over a tomb or pulpit, where it is also called a sounding-board.
A style dating from the fifth century, characterized by masonry construction around a central plan, with domes on penditives, typically depicting the figure of Christ; foliage patterns on stone capitals; and interiors decorated with mosaics and ...
The atrium could be very ornate, with a colorful mosaic floor and paintings of ancestors on the walls, but there was very little, if any furniture.
Intarsia : Essentially a Mosaic inlaid within a wooden panel, table or chest. Elements may include ivory or precious stone.
Random Rubble, Coursed Rubble, Mosaic, Random Ashlar, Coursed Ashlar
Vaults
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Taken in its architectural context, the iconographic program of the mosaics and frescoes of the Kariye Camii envelopes the believer within scenes of the Old Testament and the lives of Christ and Mary Mother of God.
 See also: Architecture, House, Roman, Arches, Church
  
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