The founding of the School of Mosaics in Ravenna took place in 1924, a period of great cultural fervour in which, while techniques and stylistic features that had gone into history were revived, new style parameters were laid down by the emerging avant-garde currents. In the cultural context of the time, the birth of the School was an act that was necessary to prevent ‘ancient’ technical skills from vanishing and to give proper training to the new artisans engaged in restoring the great Ravenna mosaic cycles. Within a short time during the decade of the ‘return to order’, the broader cultural and artistic debate would lead to Muralism becoming fully established and to the language of mosaics being revived by artists like Mario Sironi, Achille Funi, and Gino Severini, who was undoubtedly the pivotal figure in the theoretical process of the resurgence of mosaic art.