Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mosaic begins to show a pat tern, the bureau feels it has a firm bit of background for its news coverage...
Gingerly rolling back the tide of earth in one hall, 13 feet wide, the excavators found a mosaic picturing an African big-game hunt (see opposite page). After uncovering 72 feet of the hall, the end of the mosaic was nowhere in sight. Fishing scenes and pictures drawn from the myths of Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today...
...inch record with the 6-inch hole," as it was first laughingly referred to), it was, to a radio engineer, a greatly enlarged artist's representation of the face of one type of RCA color television picture tube. This tube has red, blue and green dots in a mosaic pattern similar to Artist Chaliapin...
...football field, the palace had 36 rooms and a couple of picture windows looking toward the Dead Sea. The floors were of intricate mosaic and the walls blazed out in brilliant red and gold. Elaborate hot and cold baths were supplied with running water brought down from nearby mountain springs in a stone conduit still used by Arabs...
...townspeople of Assy sided with the bishop. They had come to accept their church's Rouault windows, Lurçat tapestry, Léger mosaic and Matisse sketch, but never the Richier crucifix. "It was evil," a woodcutter ventured. A young girl agreed: "The figure was thin and frightening. The colors of the other art in the church make me feel alive and strong, but this thing only scared me like a dark devil...