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n. (plural of mosaic English)
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Mosaics is an album by Mark Heard, released in 1985 on Home Sweet Home Records. According to the liner notes in Ashes and Light, this album was recorded first but delayed by the record company who wanted the less rock-oriented Ashes released first. Consequently, this was the first album recorded in Heard's own Fingerprint Recording Studio.
Usage examples of "mosaics".
These glazed brick or tiles, with figured designs, were fixed upon the walls, arches, and archivolts by bitumen mortar, and made up the first mosaics of which we have record.
The Louvre contains some reconstructed friezes made in mosaics of stamped brick and square tile, showing figures of lions and a number of archers.
A number of Roman copies of Greek frescos and mosaics are in the Vatican, Capitoline, and Naples Museums.
All the frescos, mosaics, and altar-pieces had a decorative motive in their coloring and setting.
Christian art came out of the Catacombs and began to show itself in illuminations, mosaics, and church decorations.
It was Eastern ornament in mosaics, stuffs, porcelains, variegated marbles, brought by ship to Venice and located in S.
Painting began at Venice with the fabrication of mosaics and ornamental altar-pieces of rich gold stucco-work.
Mussulmans now assemble to listen to the reading of the Koran, while above them the Arabic names of the companions of the Prophet replace the mosaics of the Evangelists, is itself the work of the great Emperor Justinian, the destroyer of the State which Theodoric founded.
Olympian deities in the days of the Emperors,--and the exceedingly rich and beautiful new forms of capitals, of a design quite unknown to Vitruvius, which the genius of Romanesque artists has invented, we find that our chief interest is derived from the mosaics with which these churches were once so lavishly adorned.
The lower parts of the walls are covered with marble, and the upper surfaces and vaults with mosaics and paintings.
The interior surfaces were adorned all over by mosaics or paintings in the higher parts of the edifice, and below with incrustations of marble slabs, which were frequently of very beautiful varieties, and disposed so that, although in one surface, the colouring formed a series of large panels.
We are apt to think of a line of distinction between classical and Christian mosaics in that the former were generally of marble and the latter mostly of colored and gilt glass.
But glass mosaics were already in use in the Augustan age, and the use of gilt tesserae goes back to the 1st or 2nd century.
Other mosaics on the vaults of the same church are of marble and follow a classical tradition.
The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, is incrusted within by mosaic work of the 5th century, and most probably the dome mosaics of the church of St George, Salonica, are also of this period.