[DOC] [TLE] Mosaic Art - Visual Arts Encyclopedia [PAR] Mosaic Decorative Art: Origins, History of Glass Mosaics, Ceramic Tesserae and 
... Mosaic is the decorative art of creating pictures and patterns on a surface by 
setting small ... Employed as a form of interior or exterior decoration, and 
originally .... Christian art (c.300-400 CE) in the Byzantine empire, wall mosaics 
came into... [DOC] [TLE] mosaic | art | Britannica.com [PAR] In art, decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set, usually ... 
Mosaic floor fragment from a synagogue or church, cut stone with mortar from ..... 
In 6th-century Byzantine mosaics there evolved a new technique whereby gold 
and .... in Italy, penetrated into the former Greek cities in the eastern part of the 
empire,... [DOC] [TLE] Eyeconart: Medieval Art - Robin Urton [PAR] The fall of the Roman Empire brought in the age of a new power, that of the 
Christian Church. ... All art served the role of church decoration. ... The primary 
medium of Byzantine art was their use of glass mosaics. ... stones to create 
mosaics, but the Byzantine artists used small pieces of colored glass, set into the 
mortar of the... [DOC] [TLE] Mosaic - Wikipedia [PAR] A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of 
colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is often used in decorative art or as 
interior decoration. Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces 
of stone or glass of different colors ... Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine 
Empire from the 6th to the 15th... [DOC] [TLE] Byzantine (330-1453) | Scholastic ART | Scholastic.com [PAR] The Byzantine Empire inherited the ideas and forms of art of the classical world of 
Greece and Rome. However, part ... The art of the ancient Near East was more 
an art of decoration. ... Instead of copying nature, they made natural forms into flat 
patterns. .... The stone blocks of these piers are set in lead rather than in mortar. [DOC] [TLE] The art of the Byzantine Empire; Byzantine art in the ... - Monoskop [PAR] Church was the main patron of Byzantine art, important changes either in the 
content of this ...... and apses often had this decoration in brick sunk into the 
mortar. [DOC] [TLE] Mosaic - Buffalo Architecture and History [PAR] In mosaic work, a small piece of stone, glass, ceramic, or other hard material cut 
in a ... Stone tesserae remained dominant in mosaics into Roman times, but 
between the ... The art of mosaic flourished in Early Christian and in Byzantine art 
- churches in ... although tile was to become the main Islamic form of wall 
decoration. [DOC] [TLE] Byzantium Mosaics by Anna Ensberg on Prezi [PAR] Oct 30, 2015 ... Mosaics =The Byzantine Empire's major art form in the 500s ... A mosaic is made 
by setting small pieces of colored stone or glass into mortar. [DOC] [TLE] MosaicsPaintings in Stone  Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY [PAR] MOSAIC has been called a bizarre art-form, a striking ornamentation ... or a 
vaultwith designs made of small, closely set pieces of stone, glass, or tile. ... 
However, multicolored pictorial mosaics proved ill-suited to the needs of the early 
empire. ... One by one, tesserae were pressed into the mortar, which squeezed 
up... [DOC] [TLE] Mosaics in Italy - Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies [PAR] Jul 27, 2016 ... Mosaic, a medium comprising natural stone and/or glass and pasta vitrea ... set 
into mortar, is among the most durable and prestigious art forms of medieval Italy. 
According to Pliny the art of setting mosaic pavements reached Italy in the .... 
Kitzinger, Ernst. Byzantine Art in the Making: Main Lines of Stylistic... [DOC] [TLE] Mosaic Centre-Jericho [PAR] Since ancient times, man has used mosaic as a technique of decorative art. ... 
effects of visible mortar patches, and new materials, above all glass, offered a ... 
However, it seems certain that wall mosaics had come into use in Roman art well 
... of the Byzantine empire

Question: This art form of setting stones or glass into mortar was the main decorative art of the Byzantine Empire
Answer: Mosaic