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From mosaic paving to Cosmatesque paving with tesserae of marble, semi-precious stones, and vitreous paste: from hexagonal majolica tiles to fired brick tiles; from polychrome enamelled tiles down to the most recent uses of ceramics in architecture.
Ranging from the Ravenna mosaics of late antiquity to the sophisticated creations of Roman medieval marble workers, from the hexagonal to the fired bricks with intarsia work produced in Roman kilns and used by the great Renaissance architects; from the baroque juxtapositions of polychrome enamel surfaces against monochrome brickwork, to the tapestry-like tiling in brilliant colours, from austere neoclassical creations to joyous expressions of popular figurative culture and nineteenth-century historical revivals, also influenced by Spain.
The experience gained in thirty years of research, a love for the material, and a fair amount of luck have made this exhibition possible. We visited historical monuments and examined a large number of surviving decorative pavements. Some of these colorful compositions were so beautiful and so impressive that we couldn't bear the idea of treading on them - we wished to walk on the walls or on the ceiling, revolutionizing the floor/ceiling relationship.