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The Mellini’s, the family dedicated to creating mosaics for the world’s most important churches

In this workshop, the artist Massimo Mellini and his team produce stunning large-scale mosaics and stained-glass windows for Cathedrals and Churches across the world. Like this one in Houston, Texas, that covers the entire ceiling of the new cathedral… 

But before you can look up at these awe-inspiring works in the windows and on the ceilings of churches and cathedrals, they start here, one little piece at a time. 

The work is painstaking. A full mosaic can contain millions of pieces… and each and every piece has to be selected from thousands of potential colors and shades, and then cut, ground, and delicately placed in exactly the right place to create a masterpiece. 

For Massimo, creating beautiful mosaics is something that runs deep… this company was started and built by his late father. 

Massimo’s father sadly died when he was only 15, and so, when he graduated school, he continued his father’s legacy, carrying on the family business and working with their customers to bring their ideas to life in either stained glass or mosaics. 

What starts out as an idea, then becomes a sketch, then a sample, and then, after years of work… a finished masterpiece. 

Massimo feels the added weight not only of having to create something beautiful, but also something that portrays the beauty of the Faith. 

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