Demonstrating the big and the small of the bedazzlement initiative were huge icons and miniature mosaics.

The miniature mosaic of Christ in the Museo Nazionale at Florence illustrates the more gentle, humanistic conception of Christ which appeared in the 12th century.

Those tiny stones were valuable because of their matching, rather than their individual worth; They formed miniature mosaic, grotesque in its design.

The city was distance-dwindled to a miniature mosaic of lights, sparse because it had no need to illuminate streets.

Their wish list included 14th- and 15th-century icons and richly illustrated manuscripts, miniature mosaics created in court ateliers of Constantinople and elaborately embroidered religious vestments of silk, gold and gems, each a priceless example of cultural heritage.

Full of amazing exotica - manuscripts, miniature mosaics, textiles, drawings, paintings - the exhibition ends with a room of great Northern Renaissance art indebted to icons that proves Byzantium's continued reach.

The vegetation is a miniature mosaic of matorral, barren rock, various size trees, and shrubs mixed with ferns and perennial herbs.

Family mementos like the miniature mosaic that her parents brought back from Italy in the early 1900's cover the side table.

Desert is by far the most common sight, and only occasionally does a twinkle or a miniature mosaic give evidence of human works.

On view were beautiful but arcane religious objects: miniature mosaics created in court ateliers of Constantinople and richly illustrated manuscripts; elaborately embroidered religious vestments and sumptuously gilded metalwork.