/tags/mosaic/Recent content in Mosaic on Late BloomsHugoen-usFri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000/posts/royal-ontario-museums-rotunda/Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000/posts/royal-ontario-museums-rotunda/<p>[caption id=&ldquo;attachment_1868&rdquo; align=&ldquo;aligncenter&rdquo; width=&ldquo;584&rdquo;]<a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2014/Royal-ontario-museums-rotunda/i-CHB4dcz/0/KfZNR7Xpp8wGckkK8CpRGPD569KgNzMG33Cbrn2g5/D/ROM-rotunda-collage-D.jpg"><img alt="The ceiling is made from thousands of sheets of imported Venetian glass, cut into more than a million tiny coloured squares. A team of skilled workers laboured for eight months to install the ceiling. Its sparkling gold, rust and bronze background is inset with red, blue and turquoise patterns, recalling the magnificent mosaics of the Byzantine world and Eastern Europe. Worked out on the golden field are geometrical borders and panels which frame decorative floral designs. The central panel is inscribed with a passage from the Book of Job in the Old Testament: “That all men may know his work” (ROM website)" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ROM-rotunda-collage-1024x593.jpg"></a> The ceiling is made from thousands of sheets of imported Venetian glass, cut into more than a million tiny coloured squares. A team of skilled workers laboured for eight months to install the ceiling. Its sparkling gold, rust and bronze background is inset with red, blue and turquoise patterns, recalling the magnificent mosaics of the Byzantine world and Eastern Europe. Worked out on the golden field are geometrical borders and panels which frame decorative floral designs. The central panel is inscribed with a passage from the Book of Job in the Old Testament: “That all men may know his work” (ROM website)[/caption]</p>