mosaicist
- noun
- /moʊˈzeɪɪsɪst/
- Specialized
:
mosaísta
- The mosaicists were then able to place the tesserae in the exact positions where they lay in the ancient mosaic.
Examples
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These two heads, which are real portraits, were made by the same mosaicist and at the same time.
Academic text (1997) -
"Most of the yellow and red marbles came from Egypt in antiquity," according to expert mosaicist Paolo Recagni.
Academic text (2006) -
"Each face took a single mosaicist three days!"
Academic text (2006) -
The same workshop seems to have set all the faces, with a different mosaicist doing those of the deacons.
Academic text (1997) -
One of the next challenges the mosaicists faced was to design a frame that would actually hold the mosaic.
Academic text (2006) -
Twenty-one months after they began, the mosaicists were ready to move their work to Pompeii and install it in the House of the Faun.
Academic text (2006) -
The mosaicists have done this with indisputable competence and a fairly wide technical repertoire, though without excessive care for details of technique.
Academic text (1997) -
One of the youngest members of the team (members range from 20 to 60 years old), Luca Barberini said, "It was a great new experience for a person like me who wants to become a famous mosaicist."
Academic text (2006) -
The renowned mosaicist created a breathtaking mural using tiny pieces of colored glass.
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She trained under an experienced mosaicist to learn the traditional techniques of tile art.
Synonyms
A person who makes pictures by setting small colored stones into a surface
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mosaicist comes from mosaic, a word that once meant 'work of the Muses', and the ending -ist which means 'one who does'. So a mosaicist is like an artist who makes pictures from many small pieces of stone, glass, or tile.
