Guy Gavriel Kay, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author of The Fionavar Tapestry, brings his unique storytelling imagination to an alternate Byzantine world… Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, ...
Opening with a chapter on inspiration by examining the time-honored art of mosaics, this book then goes on to give instructions and clear guidance for a variety of projects. 200 color photos. 60 drawings.
An intricately woven memoir spans five generations of the author's family, from the turn of the century through the Holocaust to the present day, delving into Polish-Jewish culture and revealing the trials and tribulations of this ...
In this companion volume to The Story of Christian Theology, Roger E. Olson thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages--revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity
In a poetic and engaging memoir, the Award-winning musician speaks out on her twenty-year-plus career in music and presents her thought-provoking insights and reflections on everyday life, marriage, friendship, motherhood, loss, forgiveness ...
Gerardo Marti shows us how this unusual church has achieved multiethnicity, not by targeting specific groups, but by providing multiple havens of inclusion that play down ethnic differences.
An overview covers four basic mosaic methods: pique assiette, which uses fragments from plates, mugs, and pictures; direct (just lay it down and glue); indirect, where the work is done on a temporary surface before being cemented; and three ...
This contemporary collection teaches American music history through student-centered projects.
This results in a square mosaic. In such a square pattern, single cones may be situated at two different locations. If they are found at the intersection of the double cone clefts they are called “central” single cones; ...
Illustrated in color throughout, this handsome volume presents selected papers from an international symposium held in June 2001 marking the completion of a ten-year project to conserve the Last Judgment mosaic, at St. Vitus Cathedral in ...