Question: How big were the tesserae in the Komnenian period miniature mosaic icons?
Answer: 1 mm or less

Question: What were the tesserae usually set in for miniature mosaic icons?
Answer: wax or resin

Question: The more humanistic conception of Christ appeared when?
Answer: in the 12th century

Question: What was the intended purpose of the miniature mosaic icons?
Answer: private devotion

Question: When was the Church of the Holy Apostles built? 
Answer: 1310–14

Question: Who removed the gold tesserae in the background of the mosaic at the Church of the Holy Apostles?
Answer: some vandal

Question: Where is the Theotokos Paregoritissa Church located?
Answer: Arta

Question: Who established the Theotokos Paregoritissa Church in 1294-96?
Answer: the Despot of Epirus

Question: The same team of mosaicists worked on the Church of the Holy Apostles in Thessaloniki as which other building?
Answer: Pammakaristos

Question: where is the greatest mosaic work of the renaissance?
Answer: the Chora Church in Constantinople

Question: How many mosaic panels from naos have survived?
Answer: three

Question: The panels of naos are only capped in importance by which other location?
Answer: the Hagia Sophia

Question: Who commissioned the mosaics at naos?
Answer: Theodore Metochites

Question: The panels from naos show what influence on Byzantine art. 
Answer: Italian trecento

Question: When was the last period of Roman mosaic art?
Answer: the 12th–13th century

Question: Where is the church of Santa maria?
Answer: Trastevere

Question: Who does the facade at the Santa Maria church depict?
Answer: Christ and Mary

Question: When were the mosaics at Torriti and Jacopo fully restored?
Answer: in 1884

Question: What year was the medallion above the gate of the church of San Tommaso?
Answer: 1210

Question: Who created the Navicella mosaic in the Old St. Peter's church?
Answer: Giotto di Bondone

Question: Who commissioned the Navicella mosaic?
Answer: Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi

Question: Who did the navicella mosaic depict walking on water?
Answer: St. Peter

Question: What century was the majority of the Navicella mosaic destroyed?
Answer: the 17th

Question: Navicella means what in Italian?
Answer: "little ship"

Question: Why did the Normans adopt a Byzantine art style?
Answer: enhance the somewhat dubious legality of their rule

Question: when was the height of mosaic art in sicily?
Answer: the 12th century

Question: Who was influenced by Western European and Islamic tendencies?
Answer: Greek masters working in Sicily

Question: Who adopted the Byzantine mosaic tradition?
Answer: Norman kings

Question: The Martorana church is an example of the best mosaic art in what part italy?
Answer: Sicily

Question: When was the Martorana church decorated?
Answer: around 1143

Question: Who is featured in the mosaic at the Martorana church?
Answer: Christ

Question: The Martorana church was likely decorated by the same greek masters who decorated which church?
Answer: the Cappella Palatina

Question: Who was the founder of the Martorana church?
Answer: Georgios of Antiochia

Question: Who is receiving a crown from christ in the mosaic originally in the narthex?
Answer: Roger II

Question: What is the name of the largest mosaics in Italy?
Answer: The Monreale mosaics

Question: At least how many tesserae are used in the the Monreale mosaics?
Answer: 100 million

Question: Who commissioned the Monreale mosaics between 1176 and 1186?
Answer: King William II of Sicily

Question: Who is displayed getting crowned by christ in the Monreale mosaics?
Answer: King William II

Question: What is the king offering Theotokos in the Monreale mosaics? 
Answer: the model of the cathedral

Question: What region of italy was part of the Norman empire?
Answer: Southern

Question: The only surviving mosaic from Norman held souther Italy is what?
Answer: pavement of the Otranto Cathedral

Question: The mosaics in churches of Ravello prove what?
Answer: mosaic art was widespread

Question: What year were the mosaic pavements installed at the Otranto Cathedral?
Answer: 1166

Question: What survives from the mosaics of Amalfi's Norman Cathedral?
Answer: Only fragments

Question: Which area in Italy besides Sicily did mosaic art not go out of fashion in the middle ages?
Answer: Venice

Question: Which church in Venice is decorated with elaborate golden mosaics?
Answer: St Mark's Basilica

Question: When were the oldest scenes in St. Mark's mosaics completed?
Answer: the late 11th century

Question: The majority of the mosaics in Venice were created by who?
Answer: local artists

Question: When was the sack of Constantinople?
Answer: 1204

Question: Where is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta?
Answer: Torcello

Question: When were the mosaics in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta built?
Answer: the 12th century

Question: Where is the Basilica of Santi Maria e Donato located?
Answer: Murano

Question: Who purchased the 13th century mosaic from the the San Cipriano Church?
Answer: Frederick William IV of Prussia

Question: Where did Frederick William IV relocate the mural he purchased?
Answer: the Friedenskirche of Potsdam

Question: Who hired Byzantine experts to decorate a rebuilt abbey church?
Answer: The Abbot of Monte Cassino

Question: After what time did the Abbot of Monte Cassino send for Byzantine mosaicists?
Answer: 1066

Question: What animal was on the only surviving mosaics created by the greeks at the rebuilt abbey?
Answer: greyhounds

Question: Where are the only remaining greek mosaic panels now kept?
Answer: in the Monte Cassino Museum

Question: What was special about St Mark's Basilica in Venice?
Answer: façades were also decorated

Question: When was the latest addition to the facade at St Mark's Basilica in Venice?
Answer: from 1270–75

Question: the Cathedral of Orvieto has a mosaic facade, done first in which century?
Answer: the 14th

Question: The Cathedral of Spoleto is signed by who?
Answer: Solsternus

Question: the Basilica di San Frediano in Lucca has a large golden mosaic facade depicting which figure?
Answer: Christ

Question: What proves mosaics were used in the early middle ages?
Answer: scant remains

Question: Where is the Abbey of Saint-Martial?
Answer: Limoges

Question: When was the crypt of the Abbey of Saint-Martial re-discovered?
Answer: the 1960s

Question: What was found under the Basilica of Saint-Quentin?
Answer: 9th century mosaic

Question: What common element do mosaic panels from the 11th century have?
Answer: simple colors

Question: What would replace the labor intensive technique of mosaic?
Answer: fresco

Question: When was the the mosaic at the Royal Basilica of Hungarian Kings destroyed?
Answer: the 17th century

Question: Who created the Last judgement mosaic in the St. Vitus Cathedral?
Answer: Venetian craftsmen

Question: What is the Royal Basilica of the Hungarian kings also known as?
Answer: Alba Regia

Question: Where is the Royal Basilica of the Hungarian kings?
Answer: Székesfehérvár

Question: Where is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre located?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: Where is the mosaic "Ascension of Christ" located?
Answer: in the Latin Chapel

Question: What nation influenced the Crusaders mosaic styles?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: What is the name of the lone surviving mosaic of the Crusader period?
Answer: "Ascension of Christ"

Question: The Byzantine emperor, the king of Jerusalem and the Latin Church came together in what year to redecorate the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Answer: 1169

Question: when were mosaic pavements uncovered at the Bizere Monastery?
Answer: 2003

Question: Where would the Bizere Monastery be located today?
Answer: Romania

Question: When were the mosaics at Bizere Monastery created?
Answer: between the 10th and 11th century

Question: In what kingdom was the Bizere Monastery located?
Answer: Hungary