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Rotunda - Royal Ontario Museum
View of mosaic ceiling in the Rotunda, Royal Ontario Museum (View in full size to appreciate the magnificent work with tiny mosaics!!)
As the main entrance to the Museum from 1933 to 2005, the Rotunda’s mosaic ceiling reflected the breadth of the collections to visitors; its patterns and symbols representing cultures throughout the ages and around the world.
The ceiling is made from more than a million tiny coloured squares of imported Venetian glass. Its sparkling gold, rust and bronze background is inset with red, blue and turquoise patterns, recalling the magnificent mosaics of the Byzantine world and Eastern Europe. A team of skilled workers laboured for eight months to install the ceiling.
- Royal Ontario Museum
Rotunda - Royal Ontario Museum
View of mosaic ceiling in the Rotunda, Royal Ontario Museum (View in full size to appreciate the magnificent work with tiny mosaics!!)
As the main entrance to the Museum from 1933 to 2005, the Rotunda’s mosaic ceiling reflected the breadth of the collections to visitors; its patterns and symbols representing cultures throughout the ages and around the world.
The ceiling is made from more than a million tiny coloured squares of imported Venetian glass. Its sparkling gold, rust and bronze background is inset with red, blue and turquoise patterns, recalling the magnificent mosaics of the Byzantine world and Eastern Europe. A team of skilled workers laboured for eight months to install the ceiling.
- Royal Ontario Museum