Monochrome: A method of decorating floors, walls and ceilings with tiny fragments (tesserae) set into mastic plaster or cement. It has a beginning in Crete and with the early Greeks. The largest mosaic is on the walls of the Library of the Universidad Nacional Autonomao de Mexico. There are four walls, the two largest measuring 12,949 sq ft (1203 m2) which depict the Pre-Hispanic past. The largest in Britain is Roman and is the Wood-chester pavement, Gloucestershire of about CE 325. It was excavated in 1793 and measures 48 ft 10 in square (14'88 m2), and is made of 11 million tesserae. It is kept covered with protective earth.

 

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Monochrome: A method of decorating floors, walls and ceilings with tiny fragments (tesserae) set into mastic plaster or cement. It has a beginning in Crete and with the early Greeks. The largest mosaic . . . View Full Definition

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