ANDAMENTO

What it is

A mosaic workshop in Ravenna; the home page is a wall of 89,797 tesserae you can pan across.

What makes it work

A tesserae engine sets every picture in rows that follow the drawing, with gold tilted to catch light.

1. 0189,797 tesserae
2. 02Drag the wall
3. 03Setting scene

What the critic wrote

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.

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