No ancient medium is more difficult to present in the museum setting than floor mosaics. |
The town is famous for its Norman Cathedral, one of the wonders of the medieval world, glittering with the gold tesserae of a thousand mosaics. |
There artists and craftsmen produced everything from metalwork and furniture to embroideries and mosaics. |
Incremental layers of internal plaster have been scraped back to reveal the original brickwork, fragments of tiling and mosaics. |
Desperate digging against the rising water level managed to salvage a tiny fraction of its priceless mosaics, now displayed in Gaziantep museum. |
A unique addition are one-of-a-kind mosaics made of painted eggshells placed on small wooden boxes, created by Kansas artist Sherri Lindsay. |