Mosaic Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
... of the unfinished mosaics of the church of the Pammakaristos (now the Fethiye mosque) led Byzantine scholars to revise their opinions in favour of the direct method, in which artists did preliminary drawings on the wall and then set the tesserae directly on to this surface. It is now generally agreed that both Byzantine and Western mosaics were produced in this manner. A reasonable amount of information about underdrawings and the composition of mosaic setting-beds is provided by analyses of various mosaic projects. The setting-beds were usually built up of...
Mosaic Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
... of the unfinished mosaics of the church of the Pammakaristos (now the Fethiye mosque) led Byzantine scholars to revise their opinions in favour of the direct method, in which artists did preliminary drawings on the wall and then set the tesserae directly on to this surface. It is now generally agreed that both Byzantine and Western mosaics were produced in this manner. A reasonable amount of information about underdrawings and the composition of mosaic setting-beds is provided by analyses of various mosaic projects. The setting-beds were usually built up of...
