Tag Archive 'Art'

Sep 13 2008

SMALTI

Published by Jennifer under Art

Smalti mosaic tile

My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class – as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art: I chose lots of blues and greens – at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but [...]

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Sep 09 2008

Smalti Italian Mosaics!

Published by Jennifer under Art

Jesus Christ, a Byzantine mosaic in the interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.

My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class – I’m so excited!  We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it!  The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]

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