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bird mosaic Mosaic floor fragment from a synagogue or church, cut stone with mortar from Israel, late 5th–6th century ce; in the Jewish Museum, New York City.

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Frederick O. Waage
Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1945–71. Author of Prehistoric Art and others.
Frederick O. Waage,
Per Jonas Nordhagen
Professor of Art History, University of Bergen, Norway. Coauthor of Mosaics.
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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. Mosaic also differs from inlay in the size of its components. Mosaic pieces are anonymous fractions of the design and rarely have the dimensions of pieces for intarsia work (fitted inlay usually of wood), ...(100 of 11727 words)

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