Italian mosaic

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In Italian, the words pietra dura mean “hard stone.” The definition of pietra dura (in terms of art) refers to a particular form of Italian mosaic from the 1500s. Learn more about this fine art in this post:

Mosaic floor in the home of Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso (d. 121/122 AD), Roman Empress and wife of Emperor Trajan.

Joshua Winer is an award winning artist specializing in murals, mosaics, mobiles and works of public art. He is nationally recognized for his architectural murals, historical murals, community murals and residential murals. He has also created mosaic murals for schools, libraries, and cultural centers from a variety of materials including Italian glass, Mexican smalti, and handmade ceramic tiles. Over the last twenty years, he has created hundreds of works of art in Boston, Massachusetts, as…

This round olive branch marble mosaic can be installed in a tabletop, floor or wall and operated outdoors. The joints of the mosaic are filled by two-component, decorative, satin finish, acid-resistant epoxy mortar for natural stone, so the mosaic has high performance, resistant to mechanical stress, waterproof, resistant to ultraviolet rays and atmospheric precipitation.

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Making artistic Mosaic, design of unparalleled beauty, inventing ' tromp l'oeil' thanks to the endless colors of the glass Mosaic collections, all this allowed us to produce and divulge in all the world the preciousness of the mosaic as an expression of art that becomes an element of contemporary design in the decorations of environments. The tiles cut one by one by the expert hands of Mosaic masters; become brushstrokes to light, colors that through the materials give dimension and creative…

This round olive branch marble mosaic can be installed in a tabletop, floor or wall and operated outdoors. The joints of the mosaic are filled by two-component, decorative, satin finish, acid-resistant epoxy mortar for natural stone, so the mosaic has high performance, resistant to mechanical stress, waterproof, resistant to ultraviolet rays and atmospheric precipitation.