The critic, round 1

ANDAMENTO turns the Ruinart fresco's gesture into something literal. The wall you drag is a real mosaic, and every image on the site comes from one tesserae engine that follows the andamento rows. The octopus, the peacock and the cantharus band read as genuine Ravenna work, and that makes the site original. The inner chapters are close to ruinart/10 and oceanx/09 in restraint: the cream plaster ground, the flared Solveig display face with Caveat notes, polaroid crops and a gold-tesserae wordmark footer. Four things keep it below Site of the Day level. None of the motion captures shows the signature interaction (the camera flight, the spotlight or the callout), so the home reads as a pan across a picture. The empty white rail discs on the gold look unfinished. The flat 'Cartone' vector state and the blank bench on first view weaken the inner pages. The site also ships a developer lab page, which is still public, throws a 404 and overflows on phones.

• The procedurally set mosaic wall. The tesserae follow real andamento rows around every figure, and the octopus, fish, peacocks and wave border read as crafted work, not noise. Keep the engine and the subject exactly as they are.
• The concept is consistent throughout: the brand name, the engine's maths and the navigation are all the same 'rows of tesserae' idea, and there are real tessera counts everywhere (89,797 on the wall, 4,206 in the sea).
• The chrome is faithful to Ruinart: a small centred wordmark card, a white hint card with a dashed-ring icon, a Caveat 'Click the peacock' note and the left visited rail. The art gets almost the whole frame.