Skin colour in ancient mosaics and why it matters This post is a response to an October 2018 New Yorker article, The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture, written by Margaret Talbot, which discusses the use of colour on ancient Roman and Greek statues. The article argues that academics have …
A retired engineer from Tel Aviv is an unlikely candidate to undertake the reconstruction of a Byzantine mosaic floor in Greece. But with hard work, determination and a generous amount of enthusiasm he transformed a few forgotten mosaic fragments …. ..into a digital representation of a lost masterpiece: Fragments of …
This is a thank you to this year’s participants in my mosaic course in Greece and a notice that my 2019 Traditional and Contemporary Mosaic Course in marble will take place from June 29 to July 5. Fortunately for me but maybe not quite so fortunately for you, the …
A recent trip to see some of the ancient and contemporary mosaics of Israel was made possible through the warm hospitality and open-hearted generosity of a man I scarcely knew and now count as a friend. There are, so I’m told, more than 1,000 ancient mosaics to be seen in …
In search of rare orchids: The Mosaics of Jordan I would hazard a guess that being a lover of ancient mosaics is much like being a bird watcher or a seeker of rare orchids. You read books about them, browse the internet in search of them, communicate with fellow obsessives …
The Nature of Mosaics: A New Theory About What Makes Mosaics Different. I have a new theory about the nature of mosaics. Hold on, stop right there. Don’t flick forward quite so fast. This theory has been bobbing around in the back of my mind for some time and I …
