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I. Fiorentini Rocuzzi 
MOSAIC
Materials, Techniques 
and History
(IV EDITION)
The New Book
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Writen by Isotta Fiorentini Roncuzzi (president of Intenational Association of Mosaic Art AIMC)
 

MOSAIC

Materials, Techniques
and History
Author: Isotta Fiorentini Roncuzzi
Edition: MWeV Editions 
Copyright: MWeV 2001
languages: English (also available the Italian version )

IV EDITION fully updated.
262 pp, 141 colour illus, 73 b&w illus. Click here to see the general index of the book. 
Basic and advanced information on history, techniques, materials and professional ancient, modern and contemporary methods, combine to make this book very suitable for use in middle and high schools, libraries, and at home.
This book includes the contents of the printed Brochure 'Mosaic. Methods of execution'. (Please, see PART FOUR of GENERAL INDEX )

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Without doubt this is the book that has been direly missed in the technical-artistic world of mosaics and its publication now makes it possible to study mosaics from a number of viewpoints. It is a book that not only traces the origins, life and history of the most splendid ages of the mosaic, but also penetrates the shadows and reveals the dimmer reflections from darker ages; a book that approaches mosaics realistically, giving them substance, just as the protagonists and artists of ancient and recent times have done. For these purposes it teaches the methods of producing mosaics, the behaviour of the materials (pebbles, shells, marble, glass, earthenware, smalts, glass paste, hard stones and precious stones) drawing on the assistance of technique, mechanics and chemistry.
For mosaic tesserae to become a mosaic they must be capable of attachment to floor, a wall or cupola; technically, mechanically chemically attached to a surface and also in a way that resists infiltration of water, abrupt temperature changes and even earthquakes. 
Throughout the centuries the mosaic has enjoyed moments of great glory and likewise moments of oblivion. Its survival through time has indeed depended on human techniques, but also, and unfortunately, on the fortunes of war or religious dogma.
Nevertheless, the overall triumph of the mosaic has consolidated and reinforced the need to use highly specialised techniques in its production. It has also shown us that in addition to technical requirements, it will always be the artist’s ability to create images that makes the crucial difference. Seven mosaic tesserae can be used to produce just a line but they can also form an eye, a living eye that watches. What, then, is a mosaic and what should it be? To find out, it suffices to know how to look and to listen and then to realise that in order to create balance the artists knew how to unite and connect opposites, such as light and dark, movement and stillness, fantasy and reality, truth and fiction, warm and cold colours, relief and recess, space and time. Finally, when the balance is set up and working the two-dimensional mosaic becomes a three-dimensional space, so that it becomes living and so lives. (P.O.)
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I. Fiorentini Rocuzzi 
MOSAIC
Materials, Techniques and History
(IV EDITION)

General Index

PART ONE: Terminology used in mosaic art
Chap.   1 – Various terms used in mosaic art and mosaic types

PART TWO: Origins of mosaic art
Chap.   2 – Origins of mosaic art in Assyria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Phrygia and Greece. The first individual tesserae and their fixatives
Cap.   3 – Mosaic art in Mexico: the Mayas
Cap.   4 – The spread of mosaics in Rome during the republic and in the first centuries of the empire

PART THREE: The materials
Chap.   5 – Stones and marbles
Cap.   6 – Glass and smalts for mosaics
Cap.   7 – Glazed Ceramics

PART FOUR: Creation of the mosaic
Chap.   8 – Techniques of execution

PART FIVE: Floor and wall mosaics
Chap.   9 – Mosaic floors in Greece
Chap. 10 –Mosaic floors in Rome
Chap. 11 – Byzantine and medieval mosaic floors 
Chap. 12 – Wall mosaics

PART SIX: The fixatives
Chap. 13 – Inorganic fixatives
Chap. 14 – Mortars
Chap. 15 – Organic fixatives

PART SEVEN: The revival of mosaic art
Chap. 16 – The mosaic in recent centuries
Chap. 17 – Mosaic works today

PART EIGHT: Table of fixatives

PART NINE: Colour plates

Index of black and white illustrations
Index of colour plates
General index

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