The Art of Mosaic Design
Subtitle: A Collection of Contemporary Artists
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781564968753
Subjects: Handicrafts; Mosaics; Hobbies/Crafts; Crafts & Hobbies; Art & Art Instruction; Mosaic; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Glass & Glassware
First sentence: Glass mosaics date from around the second century B.C., and became widespread by the fifth century, but it wasn't until the mid-fifteenth century when smalti manufacturers in Murano and Venice learned to precut small, regular pieces known as tesserae.