Exclusively for Saturated Space Eleanor Jolliffe unearths the shimmering delights of the material, technical, historical, and experiential story of Byzantine architectural mosaics.
"The golden mosaics of Byzantine churches
hold a particular allure to tourist and pilgrim alike. These timeless
representations of the divine have fascinated viewers for centuries. This paper
considers the manufacture, use and experience of the glass tiles, or tesserae,
used in these mosaics- specifically gold tesserae.
Gold tesserae were used in
ecclesiastical mosaics specifically as a representation of divine light, and,
in collaboration with architectural form and curated lighting were crafted to
inspire spiritual experiences. A modern viewing of these mosaics is vastly
different to a Byzantine viewing and this paper also explores these
differences, and the question of whether tesserae can still hold the same
meaning and significance in the present day."
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