(1) Mosaics can be made from any of a number of materials, from the traditional tessera and glass, to mundane materials such as stones and beads, to the unexpected bottle caps, nuts and bolts, and industrial cast-offs.(2) Every corn-receiver was therefore now provided with a tessera , and this tessera, when once granted to him, became his property.(3) The tessera was recovered from the Ninfeo of Punta Epitaffio during the underwater excavation in the sea in front of Baia, which nowadays is a little town near Naples.(4) But all of a sudden the brightly colored tessera of Edward Burn-Jones's Christ in Glory came to swirling life, and the heat of spring turning into summer more dramatic than oppressive.(5) Another was Giacomo Rafaelli, who specialized in so-called micromosaics, which were made up of minute tesserae .(6) History is selective, give us instead the whole mosaic, the tesserae , that we may judge if a period indeed has a pattern and is not merely a handful of coloured stones in the dust.(7) The thinly painted, diaphanous rectangles, which achieve greater density of color where they overlap, function as simulacra of brushmarks or as tesserae in a mosaic.(8) It has the same tesseral texture as the ceramic floor-tiles and is readily applied to wainscots and mantel-work.(9) Next, we painted the surface with white gesso, which was used to reflect the colors of the glass tesserae (small pieces of mosaic glass) back into the room.(10) Even the smallest tesserae (fitted together by the Franz Mayer company in Munich) catch light and differentially bounce it off or cast shadows with their irregular thicknesses.(11) For centuries historians believed the tesserae had been worn by gladiators on a chain or cord around their necks.(12) We can create our own tiles, or tesserae (one of the most beautiful words in art)!(13) In these altar mosaics, iridescent Favrile glass, Tiffany's trademark in other work, was rejected in favor of opalescent Favrile glass and Byzantine style tesserae made with gold leaf.(14) Her work obviously brings to mind the grids of Agnes Martin, as well as the linear networks of Terry Winters and even the painted tesserae of Shirley Goldfarb - though without the density of facture found in works by Winters and Goldfarb.(15) The McKeans must have been prescient about the future of conservation techniques, for they picked up everything that looked like Tiffany, from column capitals to mosaic tesserae .(16) This material is made of VITREOUS clay in tesseral pieces representing the tessera; of the Roman mosaics.
