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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 2222459, member: 7724"]they don't sell it as micromosaics.</p><p>if I remember right, in times gone the masons of the Vatican were allowed to make these out of the rests of the marble to improve their more than meagre wages; since the tourism kicked in they are managed by the Vatican adminitration to earn the most possible "ad maiorem dei gloriam".</p><p>you see similar in high-price deco shops in Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 2222459, member: 7724"]they don't sell it as micromosaics. if I remember right, in times gone the masons of the Vatican were allowed to make these out of the rests of the marble to improve their more than meagre wages; since the tourism kicked in they are managed by the Vatican adminitration to earn the most possible "ad maiorem dei gloriam". you see similar in high-price deco shops in Rome.[/QUOTE]
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