One Euro a Month !

Mused Mosaics is an AMAZING Blog by Miriam, a student at the Mosaic School of Spilimbergo. (I like this school and have blogged earlier about it !). 

It is extremely well done. Miriam provides great technical information, pictures, tutorials, videos, reports on exhibitions and shows. All of this is very informative and worth your time.

And all of this also costs money. Miriam needs support to cover these costs over the year. These are, for example, web-hosting costs, purchase of softwares,  fuel costs for a ride to the next exhibition, etc. If everyone of her readers would invest only one euro a month in her blog, that would really help her. (This is just $1.37 / month - not even the price of an espresso shot!)

I would like to invite you to follow me and DONATE so she can keep doing the good work ! 

Picture from Miriam's Mused Blog

Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli

Want to see some amazing Mosaics ?

Plan a trip to Italy. I went there in June 2008 with two friends.  We visited Ravena and Spilimbergo, a small medieval town 2 hours north of Venice, notably known as “the Town of Mosaic”, home to the famous Mosaic School, officially founded in 1922.

The school has inherited the great mosaic tradition of Rome, Byzantium, Venice and Aquileia. Nowadays Spilimbergo is the world  capital of ornamental mosaic.

Works of her students of several workshops in town have enriched airports, universities, royal palaces, public, private and religious buildings, stadiums, all over the world.

The Back entrance to the School : 2 beautiful panels flank the school side entrance door. Doves, grapevine twigs and leaves on a golden background. A definite influence from the Byzantine times.

And then you push the door open ...

 The Entrance Hallway...

These floors are amazing. The mosaics are laid according to the Direct Method, then sanded to a very smooth and shiny polish. The artistic quality as well as the finish are just extraordinary, and way above the most beautiful Roman or Greek realizations of the beginning of the Christian Era.