Mosaic | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Mosaic


00:01:46 1 History
00:02:24 1.1 Greek and Roman
00:07:07 1.2 Christian mosaics
00:07:16 1.2.1 Early Christian art
00:11:18 1.2.2 Ravenna
00:13:45 1.2.3 Butrint
00:15:26 1.2.4 Late Antique and Early Medieval Rome
00:18:31 1.2.5 Byzantine mosaics
00:31:16 1.2.6 Rome in the High Middle Ages
00:33:37 1.2.7 Sicily
00:38:02 1.2.8 Venice
00:39:45 1.2.9 Medieval Italy
00:42:24 1.2.10 Western and Central Europe
00:46:07 1.2.11 Renaissance and Baroque
00:48:00 1.2.12 The Christian East
00:55:33 1.2.13 Orthodox countries
00:58:28 1.3 Jewish mosaics
01:04:02 1.4 Middle Eastern and Western Asian art
01:04:12 1.4.1 Pre-Islamic Arabia
01:04:47 1.4.2 Pre-Islamic Persia
01:05:22 1.4.3 Islamic art
01:05:30 1.4.3.1 Arab
01:10:50 2 Modern mosaics
01:12:00 2.1 Mosaics as a popular craft
01:12:39 2.2 Mosaics in street art
01:13:30 2.3 Calçada Portuguesa
01:14:39 3 Terminology
01:16:29 4 Three techniques
01:16:45 4.1 Direct method
01:18:17 4.2 Indirect method
01:19:13 4.3 Double indirect method
01:20:29 5 Mathematics
01:20:51 6 Digital imaging
01:22:23 7 Robotic manufacturing
01:23:07 8 See also



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A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assembling 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, known as tesserae. Some, especially floor mosaics, are made of small rounded pieces of stone, and called "pebble mosaics".
Mosaics have a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC. Pebble mosaics were made in Tiryns in Mycenean Greece; mosaics with patterns and pictures became widespread in classical times, both in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Early Christian basilicas from the 4th century onwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to the 15th centuries; that tradition was adopted by the Norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century, by the eastern-influenced Republic of Venice, and among the Rus in Ukraine. Mosaic fell out of fashion in the Renaissance, though artists like Raphael continued to practise the old technique. Roman and Byzantine influence led Jewish artists to decorate 5th and 6th century synagogues in the Middle East with floor mosaics.
Mosaic was widely used on religious buildings and palaces in early Islamic art, including Islam's first great religious building, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Mosaic went out of fashion in the Islamic world after the 8th century.
Modern mosaics are made by professional artists, street artists, and as a popular craft. Many materials other than traditional stone and ceramic tesserae may be employed, including shells, glass and beads.