A four-day intensive mosaic course in Rome
This is a short and intensive course directed at all students showing interest and full of passion for this ancient art.
Duration: 4 days, total hours of the course: 21
Dates:
16-19 November 2024
14-17 December 2024
11-14 January 2025
15-18 March 2025
12-15 April 2025
10-13 May 2025
14-17 June 2025
13-16 September 2025
11-14 October 2025
15-18 November 2025
13-16 December 2025
Number of people: from 3 to 7
Upgrade your basic skills to a professional level with this intensive 4-day workshop. Here, teachers, specialized in the different techniques and expressive languages of mosaic making, will provide you with full assistance in realizing your own and unique piece of mosaic-work. The comprehensive program includes historical notions, textural techniques, techniques of assembly and installation, cutting and chromatic composition aiming to generate an efficient process at both beginners’ and advanced levels. Small groups and individual approach only.
Our students can choose one of these topics for their course:
Basic Roman Mosaic
Advanced Roman Mosaic
Human Body
Church mosaic
Upon your special request only:
Large format mosaics
Roman micromosaic (Filato technique)
You can freely choose your pattern. Should it be rather intricate, you can always make just a fragment of it.
The dimension of the mosaic depends on your pattern but on average, it is 15×18 or 20x20cm.
Duration of course: 4 days
Saturday: 14.00-17.30; historical notions, cutting materials
Sunday: 9.30-13.00, 14.00-17.30; textural techniques
Monday: 9.30-13.00, 14.00-17.30; chromatic composition
Tuesday: 14.00-17.30; techniques of assembly and installation.
