[Design-team] Hi again... I'm still trying...

[bm90fox]

"lot of frustration", it's true... only frustration I felling rigth now...

2009/7/12, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> 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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