"The Art of Mosaic, combining small element to create a decorative effect, has been practiced for thousands of years. Mosaics were formed from a variety of natural and man-made colored materials, including stone, shell, and glazed terra-cotta (fired Clay). They were then embedded in plaster, cement, or other binding material to keep them in place and to provide an impermeable barrier to the elements. Glass began to be used for mosaics sometime during the middle of the second millennium B.C., only centuries after glass, as a man-made material, was first manufactured."
"Tiffany's early career as a painter directed his lifelong pursuit of beauty. Noted as a colorist, Tiffany was deeply affected by the brilliant glass found in European cathedrals and in the warm, saturated light in North Africa, where he traveled in 1870 and 1871. He later recalled to the members of the Rembrandt Club, "I returned to New York wondering why we made so little use of our eyes, why we refrained so obstinately from taking advantage of color." His ambition to communicate this boldness and purity of color most likely prompted his initial entry into the glass and shaped his vision for the mosaics produced by his company."
Quoted from, Tiffany's Glass Mosaics, Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott
"Tiffany's early career as a painter directed his lifelong pursuit of beauty. Noted as a colorist, Tiffany was deeply affected by the brilliant glass found in European cathedrals and in the warm, saturated light in North Africa, where he traveled in 1870 and 1871. He later recalled to the members of the Rembrandt Club, "I returned to New York wondering why we made so little use of our eyes, why we refrained so obstinately from taking advantage of color." His ambition to communicate this boldness and purity of color most likely prompted his initial entry into the glass and shaped his vision for the mosaics produced by his company."
Quoted from, Tiffany's Glass Mosaics, Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott
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