Art in Stone, Rome Italy

This past week I was at a building in AZ and noticed the fantastic mosaics that had been installed on the walls into the entrance of the building.  I thought about how mosaics are such a lost art form and how beautiful they can be.

Then I remembered this mosaic that is in the Vatican.  Each stone couldn't have been larger than 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch.  And even smaller in some of the fine detail areas of the piece.  Always loving peacocks, I loved how they were included in such detail.  (My mosaics made out of paper squares in third grade art class were generally discernible blobs on color on paper.)

I think that is why this art on the floor stopped me in my tracks.