SMALL BUT MIGHTY
Nov 02, 2021
2 minutes
BY KAREEM RASHED
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MAURIZIO COGLIANDRO
LONG BEFORE GRAPHIC tees and novelty cups sullied the memorabilia market, micromosaics were the original must-have Italian souvenir. They took off in the 18th century when a few enterprising mosaicists employed by the Vatican found that Grand Tour–ing aristos, including Napoleon and Catherine the Great, would pay top dollar for miniature re-creations of the tiled masterpieces seen at the
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