Mosaic ceiling

Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy

The presentation at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was Chihuly’s third major U.S. museum exhibition in recent years. The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing provided a dramatic setting for the large scale installations and sculptures. The Red Reeds, installed in the Anne Cobb Gottwald reflecting pool, remain part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Detail of a mosaic showing Neptune and Amphitrite in a shell-shaped pavillion. In the courtyard of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum.

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Local architecture studios Productora and Esrawe Studio have outfitted a Mexico hotel with planes of green tile suspended from the lobby ceiling.

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Since the antiquity, mosaics were always one of the most prestigious decorative techniques. They required a lot of skill and a real artistic talent, while their craftsmanship, aesthetics, and size would often leave people in awe. Mostly used as floor decoration in ancient Greece and Rome, mosaics were also found on walls and ceilings, especially during the Middle Ages. Although their thematic and style changed depending on the period and location, historic tesserae combinations all had the…

Mosaic in the basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille, France