For nearly two centuries, this intricate artwork of over 1.9 million tesserae (the tiny stones that form the mosaic), ...

The Roman mosaic featured a marine scene with a mullet and a pair of clams rendered in colored tesserae. With support from ...

The work also differs from tradition in that the mosaic technique — design made of small pieces of glass, metal or tile called tesserae — characterizes only a small part of the mosaic’s surface.

Tessa Hunkin works on her mosaic while lions prowl nearby. I accompanied Tessa Hunkin of Hackney Mosaic Project to the lions’ enclosure at London Zoo when she installed her mast ...

Built in 1987 in the heart of a working neighborhood in the 18th arrondissement, a brick and ceramic fresco by artist Charles ...

The Ancient Greeks used black and white pebbles and the Romans were delighted by the rock colours in Cyprus and cherished the hard (green) “terra verdae” stone, making mosaic tesserae out of it.