Some objects taken back to Europe at the time of Cortés included examples of mosaic featherwork, but they copied European prints rather than continuing the geometric motifs of pre-Columbian feather mosaic.
The three-story building houses some of the most exquisite and intact, or almost complete, examples of mosaics I've seen in different museums around the world.
He used the example of the mosaic of the word "Imagine" in New York City's Central Park, donated in memory of John Lennon, and he quoted the lyrics to that Lennon song in a long footnote.
In somewhat later Alexandrian mosaics made with tesserae (late 3rd or early 2nd century bce), lead threads are still in use for example, in a panel, signed by the artist Sophilos and depicting a personification of Alexandria, that is the earliest known example of miniature mosaic work (called opus vermiculatum, meaning "wormlike work" because of the close-set, undulating rows of small tesserae).
As Kardong (2008) points out, the duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, is a fine example of this mosaic concept.
Musici Ambulanti, on this month's cover, found in the ruins of a structure known as the Villa of Cicero near the city of Pompeii, is one of the finest examples of ancient mosaic making.
Examples of such mosaics are patches of agricultural or forested landscapes.
An example of this involves the mosaic penA allele XXXIV, derived from recombination between Neisseria gonorrhoeae and a commensal strain that confers resistance to cephalosporin antibiotics [ 30].
For these reasons, the mosaic of Narni Majestas is an early example of the revival of the mosaic and the new interest in it in the 12th century whose use had long been neglected in great as in small art centres of Italy.
