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Mosaic masterpiece highlight of Naples Botanical Garden

Juana Jimenez carefully places each Mosaic tile carefully at the Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juana works for a Naples company called Pantheon Architecture that is trained to install art pieces like this one from Brazil. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News

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Juana Jimenez carefully places each Mosaic tile carefully at the Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juana works for a Naples company called Pantheon Architecture that is trained to install art pieces like this one from Brazil. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News

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  • Roberto Burle Marx, a world-renowned landscape artist and architect from Brazil signed his Mosaic tile that has been installed at the newly remodeled Botanical Gardens. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Local Naples Company Pantheon Architecture has been chosen to install the Mosaic Piece at the newly designed Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juana Jimenez, left Jose Juan and their partner Robert Deangelis apply each tile in place. The Mosaic was created designed by the world-renowned architect Roberto Burle of Brazil for installation. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Jose Juan, foreground, and his partner Juana Jimenez from Pantheon Architecture in Naples is part of a team installing a Mosaic Piece from a Brazilian artist Roberto Burle at the Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juan is lying down cement on the brick wall to create a smooth canvas to carefully place the mosaic tiles on to the wall. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Roberto Deangelis prepares a section of the mosaic to b applying to the Botanical Gardens mural site. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Juana Jimenez carefully places each Mosaic tile carefully at the Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juana works for a Naples company called Pantheon Architecture that is trained to install art pieces like this one from Brazil. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Overseeing the installation of World Renowned landscape artist Roberto Burleâ’s Mosaic, Juilo Ono, right flew in from Brazil. A Naples Company Pantheon Architecture was hired to install the Mosaic at the newly remodeled Botanical Gardens. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Juilo Ono, foreground flew from Brazil to over see the installation of Roberto Burle Marx Mosaic tile piece. The Mosaic is being installed at the newly remodeled Botanical Gardens in Naples. Burle is a world-renowned landscape artist from Brazil. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News
  • Local Naples Company Pantheon Architecture has been chosen to install the Mosaic Piece at the newly designed Botanical Gardens in Naples. Juana Jimenez, left and her partner Robert Deangelis uncover the Mosaic designed by the world-renowned architect Roberto Burle of Brazil for installation. Photographed on August 20, 2009. Kelli Stanko/ Special to the Daily News

The 8-foot by 17-foot mural by Roberto Burle Marx of Brazil may well become a signature for the expanded Naples Botanical Garden when it reopens Nov. 10. The work is visible from most of the garden's 92 acres.

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