10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TESSERAE»
Discover the use of
tesserae in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tesserae and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions
A collection of brief memoirs by the poet offers a glimpse of her life and the inspiration for her work Tesserae explores a memory vital to Levertov's life; each is complete in itself and set here chronologically.
2
Tesserae: And Other Poems
The title poem is interwoven with a varied collection of lyrics, narratives, puzzles, and translations
3
The Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts
1 Unless you're working with very large tesserae, applying glue to the back of
each individual piece (a technique known as "buttering") is messy and
impractical. Instead, apply the glue directly to the surface of your base object and
gently press ...
Dawn Cusick, Megan Kirby, 2003
4
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Even though pebbles and other natural materials are used for mosaics, in its
more developed form it is made from square or rectangular particles specially
shaped for the purpose, known as tesserae (Latin: "dice"). The more regular
shape of ...
5
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
A number of ancient and medieval treatises have survived that discuss how to
colour and manufacture glass tesserae. The 12th-century monk Theophilus, for
example, described this process in his treatise De diversis artibus. He stated that
...
Direct Mosaic For a direct mosaic, the tesserae are glued directly onto the surface
of the piece of wood or pot or whatever it is that you are mosaicing. The pieces
are placed the right way up, the uppermost surface becoming the final surface of
...
7
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
The provision of the other tesserae also varied. The mosaic decoration of AD 965
in the mosque at Cordoba, for example, was probably executed bv Greek
mosaicists, and the emperor Nikephoros 11 Phokas {reg 963—9) sent a
substantial ...
8
Mosaics: Inspirational Ideas and Practical Projects
First of all, you will get useful practice at cutting the tiles into tesserae. If a tile is
accidentally cut at an a^igle that is not straight, you can compensate by cutting
another to match the angle. Mosaicing straight lines. Compensate for poorly cut ...
9
The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian ...
For the tesserae see Ch. II, n. 65; Gullini 1953, 312 ff.; 1956, 6 f.; Aurigemma 50 ff.
; Kriseleit (o.c. in n. 127) 40. Measurements range from 1 to 7 mm and shapes
vary markedly. Very small and irregularly shaped tesserae are to be found in ...
10
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls:
of white tesserae and a pattern of adjacent hexagons of black tesserae on a
white background. Traces of a mosaic border are visible along the walls of the
lower terrace in the same palace. Outside the southern wall, a mosaic floor had
been ...
Lawrence H. Schiffman, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TESSERAE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tesserae is used in the context of the following news items.
Christodoulos Panayiotou on His Cyprus Pavilion in Venice
Borrowing those tesserae, working with them, and returning them once the biennial is finished to be “de-created” and reverted back to the form of the ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
Mosaics in Turkey's south were not 'botched,' says restorer
“There are around 10,000 tesserae [small stones used for mosaics] in the Isis mosaic. The whole mosaic would enlarge even if you move the tesserae one ... «Hurriyet Daily News, May 15»
Seven things to do in South Devon this weekend...
... Tilbrook and Chris Difford as well as local performances from These Reigning Days, Three Bags Full, The Simmertones, The Esplanades and Tesserae. «Torquay Herald Express, May 15»
Share “What to do in Oklahoma on May 4, 2015: See...”
Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae. For thousands of years, mosaics have been ... «NewsOK.com, May 15»
Tesserae Versicolores
1 Gli scavi eseguiti nella Cattedrale di Reggio Emilia, terminati nel 2009, hanno portato alla luce un meraviglioso mosaico tardo romano di circa 35 mq di ... «7per24, Mar 15»
Tesserae versicolores. Il mosaico dalla Cattedrale di Reggio Emilia
Comunicato Stampa: Circa 35 mq di tessere multicolori in vetro, oro, pietre e marmi per esaltare il luccichio dei gioielli, il blu intenso degli occhi, il verde delle ... «Arte.it, Mar 15»
Tesserae Versicolores: per la prima volta in mostra il mosaico …
Reggio Emilia - Tesserae versicolores, pregiato mosaico del IV secolo d.C., mostrerà per la prima volta al pubblico del Museo Diocesano di Reggio Emilia le ... «Arte.it, Mar 15»
A world in pieces: Mosaic
Composed of myriad glass or stone tesserae, mosaics bring painstaking craft skills to the realisation of environmental-scale effects. «Christie's, Jan 15»
CHURN: CABANA 19, BIKE SHOP GO TANDEM
tesserae 100714 Tesserae tile art packed it up for Atlantic City earlier this month. A sign, below, posted by a booster of Red Bank businesses wants motorists on ... «redbankgreen, Oct 14»
Even great cathedrals need help from friends
Leftover tesserae from the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis were used in crosses made for the Friends of the Cathedral Basilica, a group dedicated to providing ... «St.Louis Review, Oct 14»
