Sunday, 18 May 2025

Spring in Ravenna, Italy: City of Mosaics, part 1

 


Basilica di Sant Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy


Spring is the time of plans and projects ―Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina


My attention had been caught by a variety of mosaic courses, offered by the Mosaic Art School in Ravenna, in Italy. One in particular, on how to create micro mosaics was intriguing. This, however, was different to my usual forays into online study - this was in person and in Italy!

Well why not? Arrange a week’s trip to Ravenna, the absolute centre of 5th and 6th century, brightly coloured, Byzantine mosaics and enrol in a course on micro mosaics at the same time. . .


Continuing reading this post on my website Spring in Ravenna, Italy: City of Mosaics, part 1


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