The art of making mosaics goes far back in history, at least to that of ancient Mesopotamia, but it was the Romans who first perfected the technique and brought it to prominence. For them, however, it ...

St. Peter’s Basilica is arguably the most famous Christian worship space in the world. It is a massive church in the style of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent ...

In an old house in the center of Winona, a tiny woman with red dreadlocks wrapped in handmade glass beads tends to her many passions. What were once children's bedrooms are now work areas to ...

When artists Linda Zidonik and Nan Szypulski-Lewis decided to try their hand at the mosaic arts, they knew just where to go for supplies. "We got our materials right there on (U.S.) 441," Linda says ...

Introduction: The meaning of mosaic. -- First Phase: Classical pavements. Greek pebble mosaics ; The birth of the Tessera ; Imitation of painting ; Technical developments ; Roman black-and-white style ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you want to dive into the world of creating art out of just about anything, mosaic art may be just the thing. In east Austin, this workshop that has provided, not only the skills ...

Inside St. Peter's Basilica, artists from the studio are restoring the mosaics in the dome of the Clementine Chapel, one of the church's oldest and most venerated spaces. It is in the grotto, near the ...

During some restoration work on a former military hospital in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district in 2015, something unexpected surfaced. Beneath the foundations of the 19th-century building, long ...