Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. A technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, small pieces, usually about cubic. The small pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, used to create patterns or pictures. At first the development of mosaic has started there since the SM-3.
Of all, one of the examples of mosaic art can be seen that the Byzantine mosaics, can be found on Mount Nebo, where the important pilgrimage in the Byzantine era where Moses died. Among the mosaic of the 6th century encountered in many complexes of the church (which was discovered after 1933). The most interesting is situated in the baptistery. Intact mosaic floor covers an area of 9 x 3 m and is set in 530. He described the hunting and pastoral scenes with rich Middle Eastern flora and fauna.
The most important part of Byzantine mosaic art in the East is the Madaba Map, made between 542 and 570 as the floor of Saint George Church in Madaba, Jordan. When it was rediscovered in 1894. Map of Madaba is the oldest cartographic depiction of the Holy Land. Describes the area of Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to East Desert. Elements of the largest and most detailed topographic depiction is Jerusalem, in the center of the map. Map is enriched with many naturalistic features, such as animals, fishing boats, bridges and palm trees.
And there are many places of historical relics of this mosaic, you can find, especially in middle east countries are closely related in time with the Roman Empire.
Visible elements of ancient art is already high, a picture can be painted with hand-painted quickly, but with a mosaic of small stones up a wide range of colors can be a beautiful painting while making a lot longer than with hand painting.
