mosaico rovesciato "overturned" mosaic

Creator:	toasty
Language pair:	Italian to English
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	There doesn't seem to be an English equivalent for this, so just going with the direct translation of "rovesciato". The City of Ravenna describes it here: INDIRECT OR VENETIAN METHOD In the late 1800’s Giandomenico Facchina, a mosaic artist of Friuli perfected the so-called "overturned" technique, that is undertaken on paper support. This method was already familiar to and used by several Venetian mosaic makers amongst which Giovanni Moro, who proclaimed himself as the inventor of the method and used it at the San Marco in Venice in the period between 1822 and 1828. The method involves the preparation of a drawing on a paper or cloth backing, to which the mosaic pieces are glued: the mosaic prepared in this way is then directly applied to the mortar in situ applied to the surface to be decorated, after which the paper or cloth backing is eliminated.
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