WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is a mosaic?
A
a picture painted on wet plaster
B
a statue of someone’s head
C
a disease that killed 2/3 of the population
D
a picture made with pieces of glass or stone.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is a technique of decorative art or interior decorations.” (web definition) Mosaic art is unique and beautiful.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the field of photographic imaging, a photographic mosaic, also known under the term Photomosaic, is a picture (usually a photograph) that has been divided into (usually equal sized) tiled sections, each of which is replaced with another photograph that matches the target photo.

Detailed explanation-3: -glass tiles, ceramic tiles, glass shards, beach glass, pebbles, stone, buttons, beads, shells, china, marbles, mirror, copper rod. Collectively these are called tesserae.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mosaic is an elaborate piece of art in which small pieces of glass or stone form intricate pictures.

Detailed explanation-5: -Glass mosaic is a traditional Burmese mosaic made with pieces of glass, used to embellish decorative art, structures, and furniture.

Detailed explanation-6: -Mosaic art is the decoration of a surface with small, variously colored pieces of material, called tesserae. Various materials can be used for tesserae, but stone, glass, and ceramic are the most common. Mosaic art has some similarities to painting as a method for creating pictorial art on a two-dimensional surface.

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