Okay, this is really neat. What an incredibly intricate piece! The top picture almost makes it look room-sized, which makes the level of detail fairly typical of the period, but then you see the picture of the restorers fucking with it and it's so small. Those individual tesserae are SO FUCKING TINY!
I'm an extremely, extremely amateur mosaicist and this is just ¡ wow. Someone really wore out their fingers and probably their eyeballs working on this panel. It's absolutely incredible, and i'm glad it's finally home. posted by adrienneleigh at 11:37 PM on August 30 [7 favorites]
It really is an amazing piece of work. The visual presentation is so sophisticated my first thought was that it must be fake, but no. posted by Phanx at 3:45 AM on August 31 [1 favorite]
A better picture is to be found here.
For those who like a little irony, it's possible that the theft is the reason that the piece survived the war at all. Allied bombing did a number on the place. This may also explain why it took nearly two years to deal with the object's "authenticity and provenance". posted by BWA at 4:45 AM on August 31 [2 favorites]
Always happy to hear about the return of stolen goods. I thought it was really large at first, too. posted by Glinn at 6:11 AM on August 31
Rather annoying that the article refers to the holders of stolen artwork as the owners. posted by zeikka at 7:54 AM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Wow, what a gorgeous mosaic! posted by Too-Ticky at 8:10 AM on August 31
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Okay, this is really neat. What an incredibly intricate piece! The top picture almost makes it look room-sized, which makes the level of detail fairly typical of the period, but then you see the picture of the restorers fucking with it and it's so small. Those individual tesserae are SO FUCKING TINY!
I'm an extremely, extremely amateur mosaicist and this is just ¡ wow. Someone really wore out their fingers and probably their eyeballs working on this panel. It's absolutely incredible, and i'm glad it's finally home.
posted by adrienneleigh at 11:37 PM on August 30 [7 favorites]