The Beautiful Interior of St. John's The Baptist
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2007-06-06
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The mosaics cover 5,488 square feet . The eye in one figure has 16 �tesserae,� or pieces of mosaic. Fusing pure gold leaf between two pieces of glass makes the gold tesserae. Only four churches in the United States, including the National Shrine of he Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, and the Cathedral of St. Louis surpass St. John�s in its quantity of mosaics but, arguably, not in its quality. The mosaics were executed in Venice under the direction of Victor Zucchi of the Payne Studios. While the mosaics give the church a Byzantine feeling, the subjects are copied from Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces.
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St. John the Baptist Roman, Catholic Church, Church, Archdiocese of Newark, Jersey City, Gateway, The Gateway Region, Hudson County, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State, National Register of Historic Places
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