shardenfreude
  • HOME
  • News
  • GALLERY
  • NEW WORK
  • Commissions
  • Work for sale
  • Making a mosaic
  • CONTACT

Ravenna

10/26/2015

0 Comments

 
I've been lucky enough to spend a short time in Ravenna in Italy recently.  It is famous for its mosaics - amazing Roman and Byzantine examples - but also for contemporary mosaic work.  It has a famous mosaic school, established to revive the skills necessary for restoring historic mosaics, but by the middle of the 20th century the artists moved on to designing and making contemporary mosaics too.  Ravenna now holds a festival every two years, with exhibitions of work by mosaic artists from across the world.  These cover a wide range of subjects, styles and materials.  I'll post more pictures in due course, but here are just a few examples of the lighter side of the art of the mosaicists in Ravenna - witty pieces and in spite of their informal subjects, still executed with great skill.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Lorelei

    Archives

    June 2019
    February 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    May 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    March 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.