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Spain (Barcelona)
Mosaic Detail of the Balcony Columns of the Palau de la Música Catalana
2460
Designed and constructed between 1905 and 1908 CE. Period: Modernisme / Catalan Art Nouveau (Early 20th Century).
This image captures an architectural close-up detail of a slender cylindrical column shaft wrapped in multi-colored ceramic and glass mosaics. It is crafted from a structural core faced with glazed ceramic fragments, manufactured tiles, and glass tesserae, executed using the traditional trencadís (broken-tile mosaic) technique alongside precision tesserae placement, embedded directly into mortar beds.
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