Dragon Mosaic

Item Number: 317
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $50
Online Close: Mar 10, 2011 9:59 PM MST
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Description
What better combination of art and mascot to adorn your students room. This dragon shaped mosaic, created with green, black and red pieces was made and donated by Flagstaff's own Kristi Rollman.
The history of mosaic goes back some 4,000 years or more, with the use of terracotta cones pushed point-first into a background to give decoration. By the eighth century BC, there were pebble pavements, using different colored stones to create patterns, although these tended to be unstructured decoration. It was the Greeks, in the four centuries BC, who raised the pebble technique to an art form, with precise geometric patterns and detailed scenes of people and animals.