Mosaics Sentence Examples

These mosaics belong to very various dates.

Apart from the illuminated MSS., the mural paintings, the mosaics, and the goldsmith's work of Mount Athos are of infinite interest to the student of Byzantine art.

Two side niches contain the earliest known mosaics of distinctively Christian subjects.

Satiro are even earlier mosaics (5th century); there are also fine frescoes by Borgognone and Bernardino Lanini.

The richness of effect which the English or French architect obtained by elaborate and carefully worked mouldings was produced in Italy by the beauty of polished marbles and jewel-like mosaics - the details being mostly rather coarse and often carelessly executed.

Sgraffito designs have been combined with other graphic techniques such as fresco, and with other materials, such as mosaics.

By the end of the 3rd century BC mosaics with pebbles were being replaced by those with tesserae made from stone and glass.

However the three mosaics in trefoil headed surrounds on the north wall behind the font are from Christ Church.

Recycled glass, polished granite squares, metal and a mixture of ceramic, glass or stone mosaics are the perfect choices for the backsplash.

Other characteristic features of Tuscany interior design include wrought iron accents, tile mosaics, and rustic florals.

Another key component of Mediterranean design is the use of mosaics.

Typically crafted out of tile or glass fragments, mosaics are works of art that can embellish furniture, backsplashes, floors, or accessories.

Just Morocco - Lanterns, ceramics, wall hangings, mosaics, wrought iron, and more.

Mosaics are gaining a lot of popularity because of their ability to add sparkle.

Mosaics are employed to decorate the spandrils of the arches.

Glass for mosaics was also largely made and exported.

Inscriptions, beautiful mosaics and other traces of comfortable houses have been found, with many potsherds, coins and bronze, iron and other objects; and a large part of the town walls, several mosaics and parts of buildings, can be seen.

Use mosaics all over your backsplash for a contemporary look, or create a focal point behind your cooktop with mosaic tiles while you use a more traditional tile along the counters.

River rock mosaics, contemporary mosaic patterns and porcelain tiles that mimic the look of leather, fabric and wood have spurred new interest in tile designs.

The apse has mosaics of the 6th and 7th centuries.

The mosaics of the domes would seem to belong to the 12th century, probably before 1150.

Use a chair rail tile that matches the field tile on the counters as a frame around the mosaics.

The tiles themselves may be matte, glossy or crackled in finish and can come in sizes up to 12 x 24-inches as well as mosaics and mid-range sizes of various shapes and colors.

For a fireplace surround with a lot of character, use in a family room or other informal area, consider handmade tile mosaics.

Outline the room in a row of 6-inch tiles laid straight, and then inlay a border of the same tiles in 2-inch mosaics.

Two or three rows of mosaics will be followed with 12-inch tiles set on the diagonal in the center.

Stained glass and the use of mosaics were often very popular Art Deco design features.

Custom stone mosaics can take up to 12 weeks to ship, even if you're selecting a readymade design.

Stone mosaics from Walker Zanger are produced by the same companies that make those custom patterns, in a ready-to-ship line of colors and styles.

Although these may still be vinyl, you should try looking at the selections on sites like Showerail, which features an enormous range of curtains from the UK, in designs like mermaids, mosaics and critters.

Guests will find thought-provoking artwork and sculptures in corridors and stairwells, and the ships make good use of every inch of space by incorporating mosaics into the floor.

Mosaics - These are perfect for one area of your bathroom, like the shower wall or a backsplash.

Tile mosaics come on meshed backed sheets in various sizes.

These types of Italian glass tile are usually for mosaics.

Their tile is used by interior designers and architects around the world for a variety of applications, including kitchens, bathrooms, floors, decorative mosaics, and more.

The company's portfolio consists of eight different lines including glass mosaics, field, decorative accents and trim.

Facets is a collection of detailed borders and patterns that feature gem-like mini mosaics.

Falling Water Patterns are netted patterns of mosaics in different sized rectangles.

While you can certainly find stone mosaics that will cost you hundreds of dollars a square foot, ceramic wall tile can be as little as a few dollars a square foot, making your shower tile installation a cost effective one.

While not every stone is suitable for your shower, marble tiles, river rocks and stone mosaics can really make your shower space into something special.

Look for 1 x 3-inch mosaics, hexagons and mixtures of honed slate and glass for a striking look.

Chair rails, mixed material mosaics and accent tiles are also available for relatively little money, making a backsplash out of slate one of the more economic choices for backsplash designs.

They can be made of mosaics, or 18-inch full sized tiles.

More than half of all girls with Turner syndrome are mosaics, which means that the mutation occurs in some but not all cells of their body.

In the museum are some of the ancient sculptures and mosaics discovered in Algeria, together with medals and Algerian money.

The production of mosaics is an industry still carried on with much success in Italy, which indeed ranks exceedingly high in th department.

The Florentine mosaics are perhaps better known abroad; they are composed of larger pieces than the Roman.

Ambones were made of wood or else of costly marbles, and were decorated with mosaics, reliefs, gilding, &c.; sometimes also covered with canopies supported on columns.

The building contained one hundred marble pillars, and was also adorned with sculptures and mosaics sent from Ravenna by Pope Adrian I.

The style is commonly called Byzantine; but some of the most striking features of the churches of Ravenna - the colonnades, the mosaics, perhaps the cupolas - are not so much Byzantine as representative of early Christian art generally.

The mosaics of the 5th century, in the dome, are the earliest and perhaps the finest at Ravenna for their splendid decorative effect and rich colouring, and are less stiff and conventional than the later mosaics.

The mosaics have been in parts much restored; but the earlier ones still show, like those which preceded them in Ravenna,.

The mosaics of the choir (547) are due to Justinian, and, though inferior in style, are remarkable for their splendour of colouring and the gorgeous dresses of the persons represented, and also for their historical interest, especially the scenes representing the emperor and the empress Theodora presenting offerings.

The mosaics are modern, and the whole church has suffered greatly from recent restoration.

The baptistery mosaics represent the life of St John.

Special progress has been made in the production of mirrors, electric lamps, candelabra and mosaics.

The basilicas are surrounded by cemeteries, which are full of coffins, all of stone and covered with mosaics.

The fondi d'oro suggested the manufacture of plaques of gold which could be broken up into tesserae for use in mosaics.

St Sofia when erected by Justinian had vaults covered with mosaics and immense windows filled with plates of glass fitted into pierced marble frames; some of the plates, 7 to 8 in.

Roman mosaics show representations not only of this ass, but of the oryx, hartebeest, and perhaps of the addax.

The minaret is decorated with mosaics.

Its only notable production of a ceramic character was the work of Miura Kenya (1830-1843), who followed the methods of the celebrated Haritsu (I 6881704) of KiOto in decorating plain or lacquered wood with mosaics of raku faience having colored glazes.

He built palaces at Aix (his favourite residence), Nijmwegen and Ingelheim, and erected the church of St Mary at Aix, modelled on that of St Vitalis at Ravenna and adorned with columns and mosaics brought from the same city.

However, looking over the whole field of North American achievement, architectural and non-architectural, composite and monolithic, the palm for boldness, magnitude of proportions and infinity of labour, must go to the sculptured mosaics of Yucatan.

These mythological ideas and symbols of the American aborigines were woven in their textiles, painted on their robes and furniture, burned into their pottery, drawn in sand mosaics on deserts, and perpetuated in the only sculptures.

Paul Gauckler, the director of the department of art and antiquities in the Tunisian government, has formed a magnificent collection of Carthaginian and Roman antiquities, especially Roman mosaics.

The museum contains various valuable collections of curiosities, interesting mosaics, coins, casts, a library of 230,000 volumes, and valuable manuscripts.

This is a remarkably perfect structure with a central dome, columns and mosaics of classical fashion.

At Ravenna exist two famous baptisteries encrusted with fine mosaics, one of them built in the middle of the 5th century, and the other in the 6th.

To the latter date also belongs a large baptistery decorated with mosaics at Naples.

But though the plan shows no imitation of the great Byzantine church, the decorations of the interior (mosaics, frescoes, &c.) do indicate direct Byzantine influence.

Among the mosaics is a colossal representation of the Virgin, 15 ft.

The tomb of William I., the founder's father - a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy - and the founder William II.'s tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

Each of these is a basilica with ancient columns and mosaics in the apse.

Their internal fittingshypocausts, frescoes, mosaics - are everywhere Roman; those at Silchester are average specimens, and, except for one mosaic, not individually striking.

In the tribune are fine mosaics of the 9th century, which, Burckhardt remarks, completely break with Byzantine tradition.

Some fine mosaics have been here unearthed and immediately destroyed, in sheer wantonness, by the natives quarrying building-stone.

St Martin's, built between the 10th and 12th centuries, has a fine baptistery; St Gereon's, built in the 11th century on the site of a Roman rotunda, is noted for its mosaics, and glass and oil-paintings; the Minorite church, begun in the same year as the cathedral, contains the tomb of Duns Scotus.

No, wall paintings exist, but there are often fine floor mosaics.

It contains large mosaics of the 12th century, strongly under Byzantine influence; those on the west wall represent the Resurrection and Last Judgment.

The Lombard element, during the Norman reign, shows itself, not in whole documents or inscriptions, but in occasional words and forms, as in some of the mosaics at Monreale.

The wall above the high altar is faced with beautiful mosaics of marbles, blue glass and mother-of-pearl.

In the Der Abu Sephin, to the north of Babylon, is a Coptic church of the 10th century, possessing magnificent carved screens, a pulpit with fine mosaics and a semi-circle of marble steps.

In later times the main work was in mosaics of extreme delicacy.

Its massive Roman walls still survive, and recent excavations have revealed a town hall and market square, a temple, baths, amphitheatre, and many comfortable houses with mosaics, &c. An inscription shows that under the Roman Empire it was the chef-lieu of the Silures, whose ordo or county council provided for the local government of the district.

The churches were adorned with frescoes, wall and floor mosaics, some well preserved, and marble carvings similar to work found at Ravenna.

The interior is magnificently decorated with mosaics, mural paintings and statuary, chiefly the work of local artists.

In the town itself there are no Roman remains; but there is a good Gothic cathedral in brick, and an interesting octagonal baptistery, attributed to the 8th or 9th century, the arches being supported by ancient columns, and the vaulting decorated with mosaics.

The pavement (of 1111) is as richly inlaid as that of St Mark's, and the mosaics of the tribune are remarkable.

The wonderful mosaics, the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine.

This is rich with mosaics, among them the portraits of the king and the founder.

Since the Turkish conquest a minaret has been erected at each of the four exterior angles of the building, and the interior has been adapted to the requirements of Moslem worship, mainly by the destruction or concealment of most of the mosaics which adorned the walls.

The walls of the building are reveted with marbles of various hues and patterns, arranged to form beautiful designs, and traces of the mosaics which joined the marbles in the rich and soft coloration of the whole interior surface of the building appear at many points.

There are two good museums containing mosaics, inscriptions, carved and sculptured stones, and many smaller remains, for the town was the Roman Corinium or Durocornovium Dobunorum.

At one time the mosques were covered with mosaics, analogous to those of Ravenna, depicting scenes from the life of Mahomet and the prophets.

The decoration of some of the rooms is gorgeous, the walls being covered in part with mosaics and in part with carved work, while the ceilings are rich in arabesque ornaments, elaborately gilt.

A few years later Ibn IJaulal (978) estimates the number of churches in the city at more than 300, and al-Mokaddasi (985) describes its cathedral, with vaulted ceiling covered with mosaics, as one of the four wonders of the world.

The wealth of former inhabitants can be seen in the array of wonderful mosaics left behind.

Loaded with a huge variety of activities ranging from making mosaics in the Sculpture gallery to designing a kimono in the Japanese Gallery.

See the story of Maiden Castle and walk on roman mosaics in the atmospheric Victorian Hall.

These pebble mosaics could be found all around the Greek world from the 6th to 4th century BC.

Both facades have been recently restored, and the effect of them not altogether improved by modern mosaics.

In 1956 I was mesmerized by the Byzantine mosaics in Saint Mark's.

The mosaics will soon be installed to complete a wall which already has seven colorful mosaics depicting local scenes.

Many ancient mosaics have survived the ravages of time remarkably well.

Rain and ground water seep into the fabric of the buildings and force mosaics to bubble up.

The tiles and ceramic tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae were imported.

The tile mosaics are believed to have come from Morocco.

The tiles and ceramic tesserae used in the mosaics were made at the factory, but the deep red tesserae were imported.

The walls of the nave are adorned with mosaics of the 6th century; the scenes from the New Testament above the windows date from the time of Theodoric, while the somewhat stiff processions below, of virgins on one side and of saints on the other, are substitutions of the latter half of the 6th century for representations which probably contained some allusion to Arianism or episodes in the life of Theodoric (so Ricci).

Woerkum, or Woudrichem, a little below the town on the left bank of the Merwede, is famous for its quaint old buildings, which are decorated with mosaics.

Below the mosaics the walls and arches are covered with rare marbles, porphyries and alabaster from ancient columns sawn into slices and so arranged in broad bands as to produce a rich gamut of colour.

Of the interior decorations it is enough to mention the altars of the nave, said to be after designs by Michelangelo, and the mosaics in the dome and the apse, which were among the latest designs of Cimabue.

Two magnificent marble ambones, the larger dating from 1175, a large 11th-century altar frontal in the south aisle, having scenes from the Bible carved on thirty ivory tablets, with 13th-century mosaics in the apse, given by Giovanni da Procida, the promotor of the Sicilian Vespers, and the tomb of Pope Gregory VII., and that of Queen Margaret of Durazzo, mother of King Ladislaus, erected in 1412, deserve to be mentioned.

Only one of the original mosaics now exists, the one over the doorway at the north-western, or St Alipio, angle.

In the interior the effect is gained by broad masses of chromatic decoration in marble-veneer and mosaics on a gold ground to cover the walls and vaults, and by elaborate pavements of opus sectile and opus Alexandrinum.

To the south-west of the Forum are the remains of three small temples, one dedicated to Venus, and a well-preserved Mithraeum, with mosaics representing the seven planets, &c. To the south-west again is the conspicuous brick cella of a lofty temple, on arched substructures, generally supposed to be that of Vulcan, with a threshold block of africano (Euboean) marble over 15 ft.

Breaks were filled up with cubes obtained from fragments of contemporary mosaics previously demolished.

In this way the mosaics of the two arches of the atrium and those of the Zeno chapel were cleaned and preserved.

The mosaics of the atrium date from 1200 to 1300; the subjects are taken from Old Testament story.

The mosaics in the chapel of St Isidore (finished by Andrea Dandolo), giving us the life of the saint, were executed in 1355.

The committee secured much verde antico and porphyry for the restoration of the pavement, in place of the common marbles which it had been intended to use, and organized special workshops for the restoration and preservation of the ancient mosaics, which it had been intended to detach and replace.

In the sacristy is a series of loth-century mosaics, and in other parts of the church are inferior and later mosaics from cartoons by later Venetian masters.