Byzantine Mosaic Tile

The materials we fill our spaces with have the ability to affect our every day and evoke a sense of inspiration modernity or nostalgia.

Byzantine mosaic tile.

Byzantine design is about so much more than a simple tile. As the glass cools the metal in the matrix changes color and creates a pattern and sheen unique to each tile. Mosaic in art decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set usually variously coloured small pieces of material such as stone mineral glass tile or shell unlike inlay in which the pieces to be applied are set into a surface that has been hollowed out to receive the design mosaic pieces are applied onto a surface that has been prepared with an adhesive. That tradition was adopted by the norman kingdom of sicily in the 12th century by the eastern influenced republic of venice and among the rus in ukraine.

Based on an ancient byzantine glassmaking technique the floor tile fuses metal and glass while the glass is still molten to create a mosaic that is as unique as it is timeless. Sculpture in the round the preferred medium for images of pagan deities disappeared in byzantium and was replaced by its aesthetic opposite. Mosaics were some of the most popular and historically significant art forms produced in the empire and they are still studied extensively by art historians. Early byzantine mosaics mosaics made in ravenna for the ostrogoth king theodoric 493 526 ce are the first full manifestations of byzantine art in the west.

Our wide variety of mosaic tiles extends beyond our beautiful glass mosaic tiling. As seen in two of the foremost works from his time the baptistery of the arians and the church of sant apollinare nuovo the gold background now dominates. With figures depicted against a glimmering gold background mosaics suggest an ethereal heavenly realm. Mosaic tile mosaic tile is an excellent choice for an eye catching kitchen backsplash a functional yet elegant shower floor and so much more.

During the byzantine period craftsmen started to widen the materials that could be turned into tesserae including gold and precious stones. According to 1st century architect vitruvius the ideal. Byzantine mosaics are mosaics produced from the 4th to 15th centuries in and under the influence of the byzantine empire. Some of the finest byzantine work of this period may be found outside the empire.