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A Monastery for Mosaicists
 

Well not quite perhaps, but near enough.

The Centro Aletti in Rome is an international community of artists and theologians from the Orthodox, Oriental and Catholic Churches.

The director is the distinguished Jesuit mosaic artist Father Marko Rupnik, best known for mosaicing a Vatican chapel for Pope John Paul II, and commissions don’t come much more distinguished than that, as Michelangelo would confirm.

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Roman Footfall
 

How the Alexander mosaic was used

Wear patterns on one of the most celebrated mosaics of antiquity have allowed researchers to reconstruct exactly how ancient Romans viewed the artwork.

Found during the 1831 excavations in the lava-buried town of Pompeii, the Alexander mosaic (now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples) is the most famous example of an early tessellated mosaic.

Measuring 19 feet by 10 feet, the piece was made around 100 B.C. out of roughly 4 million tesserae (small mosaic tiles).

The artwork once decorated the floor of a room in the House of the Faun, one of Pompeii's grandest residences. More...

Associations
 

Just in case you don't know, there are four mosaic associations you should consider joining. All are useful for contacts, exhibitions and news letters.

BAMM: British Association for Modern Mosaics

SAMA: Society of American Mosaic Artists

MAANZ: Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand

MAAC: Mosaic Art Association of Canada

 
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Andamento volume 4
 

Andamento - the exciting new annual journal looking at contemporary mosaics; published by the British Association for Modern Mosaic.

This full-colour mosaic magazine aims to fill the gap in critical review and in-depth writing on mosaic from the 19th century to the present day.

Andamento issue no. 4 - 2010

Feature articles on:-

• Richmond's mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral

• Maggy Howarth on the art of pebble mosaic

• Mervyn Napier Waller's Australian mosaics

• The mosaics of Ray Howard-Jones

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