Frederick O. Waage
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LOCATION: Pittsboro, NC, United States
Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1945–71. Author of Prehistoric Art and others.
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Mosaic, in art, decoration of a surface with designs made up of closely set, usually variously coloured, small pieces of material such as stone, mineral, glass, tile, or shell. Unlike inlay, in which the pieces to be applied are set into a surface that has been hollowed out to receive the design,…
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