Le dimanche 12 juillet 2009 à 21:46 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > Le dimanche 12 juillet 2009 à 11:47 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen a > écrit : > > > To get an idea of the 'mosaic' theme work, I would google search for > > artwork of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. Sadly blue is > > not a color I found a lot of.. most of it is browns and yellows. The > > usual place one sees blue seems to be in Fish motifs. > > Note that bright colours tend to fade with time, so anything old will be > brownish/yellowish unless exceptional circumstances lead to better > conservation or someone spent a lot of time restoring it.
Also Tesselae were made of stone (glass appeared much later in Slavic orthodox churches), and blue stone is not that common -- Nicolas Mailhot
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