I. Fiorentini Rocuzzi 
MOSAIC
Materials, Techniques 
and History
(IV EDITION)

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The MOSAIC Book

Mosaic. Materials, Techniques and History

Title:        Mosaic. Materials, Techniques and History 
Author:     Isotta Fiorentini Roncuzzi, E. Fiorentini
Edition:     MWeV Editor 
Copyright: MWeV 2001
ISBN:         978-88-88308-04-0
Language: English (also available the Italian version) 
IV EDITION fully updated.
262 pp, 141 colour illus, 73 b&w illus.

Basic and advanced information on history, techniques amd materials. A must for anyone interested in learning the mosaic. Professional ancient, modern and contemporary methods, combine to make this book also very suitable for use in middle and high schools. Click here to see the general index of the book. 
This book includes the contents of the printed Brochure 'Mosaic. Methods of execution'. (Please, see PART FOUR of GENERAL INDEX)

Written by Isotta Fiorentini Roncuzzi (first president of the Intenational Association of Mosaic Art AIMC)

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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
Chap.   3 – Mosaic art in Mexico: the Mayas
Chap.   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
Chap.   6 – Glass and smalts for mosaics
Chap.   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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