Mosaics on the floor of the Villa Reale del Casale depicting women in bikini type outfits playing sport
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Beach Volleyball around 330AD - and a late entry for #MosaicMonday
In a change from the normal #mosaicmonday, how about #museummonday instead!?
From Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, #Italy, the stunning late 4th-century AD Lipsanoteca di Brescia, a reliquary made from walnut and ivory depicting a wide range of #Christian iconography.
rectangular mosaic in the style of Pompeii's. A nude angel with wings beholds an Amazon delivery box
Mihi braccas pervenerunt
(My pants have arrived)
marble and glass mosaic
by Jim Bachor, c.2023 CE
www.bachor.com/product-page/Mihi-bracca...
#art #mosaic #MosaicMonday #archaeology #satire
Snail detail Pietra dura table top Italian, Rome late 16th or early 17th century
Bird detail in Pietra dura table top Italian, Rome late 16th or early 17th century
Pietra dura table top Italian, Rome late 16th or early 17th century
Why don't we make table tops with a design like this 16th/17th c. table anymore❓
These features are typical of Rome in the years around 1600 and distinguish the tabletop from Florentine examples.
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MOSAIC FLOOR WITH CRUSTÆ, C1 BCE. SCAVI SOTTO S. CECILIA This complex site began as a domus in the C2-C1 BCE, and in the C2 CE an insula was built onto the domus, evidently a comfortable one as it had its own set of baths, much like the Caseggiato degli Aurighi at Ostia. There are mosaic floors at the C2 CE ground level but here we see a cut into that level which reveals a C1 BCE mosaic about 50 cm lower down. This mosaic, interrupted by a C2 CE wall, has a white background and a simple black frame. Within it at relatively even intervals are larger irregular coloured marble pieces known as crustæ. This style echoes the first mosaic pavement of the temple of Capitoline Jupiter, a marker of prestige. At the centre of the mosaic is a kantharos or vase in black tesseræ.
#MosaicMonday takes us into the confusing excavations under #SantaCecilia in #Trastevere to find this #mosaic floor from the C1 BCE, from a #domus on the site that was built over with an #insula in the C2 CE. It has a #kantharos at centre, but otherwise uses coloured #crustæ. #AncientBluesky 🏺
The Fordington High Street mosaic in Dorset Museum Dorchester consists of a rectangular area of very fine decorative mosaic and a semicircular area featuring a sea god thought to be Neptune
#MosaicMonday - The Mosaic of the Captives, depicting a captive family crouching with their hands bound. The central panel is surrounded by twelve portraits of Africans. The mosaic occupied the apse of the Civil Basilica in Tipasa (Algeria). Dated ca. AD 200-300.
Tipaza Museum, Algeria.
A mosaic pavement outside a window carries the black letters THE OXTED DAIRY that is shaped around the bow window’s contours. The dairy is long gone and the shop is now occupied by a fashion outfit. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
The name of a former shop H.E. BROCKES & SON NEWSAGENT STSTIONERS. is spelled out in mosaics at the entrance to the property. Brockes closed a few years ago after 100 years. They also offered toys, post office services and books in their time. Part of the mosaic has been worn away by a century of customer footfall. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
Most entries for #MosaicMonday are much older, even ancient but these are also historic remnants of a lost age of shopping in my local town. One was outside a shop where my lovely wife worked in the book department. The other a lost dairy.
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'Ancient Greek Inscription Discovered on Mosaic in Turkey Tells the Envious to Burst With Envy' #MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday - Parrot mosaic in the basilica Notre-Dame de la Garde.
Notre-Dame de la Garde was built in 1853-1864 in neo-Byzantine style on the foundations of an ancient fortress on the highest point of Marseille.
Photo by Robert Valette
Detail from the Early Third Century Damnatio ad bestias Mosaic depicting two condemned men to be thrown to the beasts, now in the Jem Museum, Tunisia; courtesy of Carole Raddato #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday
A fragment of Roman mosaic mounted on a low brick wall. It shows the bust of a naked man with his hair worn in a top-knot. The bust is in an octagonal compartment with a black and white striped border.
For this #MosaicMonday, a handsome - and larger-than-life - athlete in the museum in Aquileia. The supporting brick wall in the display gives an idea of his size. The fragment is about the height of a person.
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📷 2012
Photograph shows inside of the main bar at Philharmonic Dining Room, showing large empty floor space and a rounded bar, with brass foot rail. The floor is made from small tessellae in mosaic, mostly cream-coloured with deep red, beige and Prussian-blue pattern in a large repeated circle-of-four motif. Within the cream area of the main floor, there are multiple small, two-leaved, single flowers in mosaic scattered about. Around the bar, below waist height, is the repeated mosaics of a three-stemmed #fleur-de-lys style bunch of flower stems, with a deep red or maroon background and gold, deep blue & pale blue tiled design. There are additional flourishes in light brown between the repeating motif instances.
A bit different for today’s #MosaicMonday I think, but still amazing work… I was in #Liverpool on Saturday night & went to a pub called ‘Philharmonic Dining arooms’ near to the #Phil concert hall, and was astonished by the main bar decor, as below with the all-important #altText
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3rd Century AD grave covering of 9-year-old T. Aurelian Aurelianus. The mosaic shows him sitting next to a bird with a scroll in his hand. The lady is possibly the poetess Sapho. Recovered from the #Roman city of Salona, #Croatia and on display in the #Split museum
📸 Mine
In the foreground, one of 4 columns that supported a pergola at House of Mosaic Columns in Pompeii, with a section of geometric designs at the bottom, followed by a floral design over that and a band with a Dionysiac scene featuring deer and erotes. On the wall behind the column is a large lararium - a focus for worship of household gods. A niche in the centre is framed with stage like design and panels of geometric designs around the top three edges. At the bottom below the niche is a panel with a hen and chicks. To the right of the lararium can be seen a portion of another mosaic panel with a guilloche border and candellabra, plus a red panel near the top with erotes.
#MosaicMonday in overdrive at C1AD Villa of the Mosaic Columns, one of grandest in Pompeii.
1 of 4 great columns w Dionysiac scenes, eg cupids+deer, that supported pergola by a mosaic nymphaeum.
In adjoining garden was mosaic lararium (w chicken panel) for display of household gods.
MANN #Roman 🏺
The Creation of the World mosaic in the dome of the Chigi Chapel by Raphael, 1516.
🌎 The Creation of the World mosaic in the dome of the Chigi Chapel by Raphael, 1516.
Watch a short Art In Focus film: 'Raphael as Architect & Archaeologist': youtu.be/zSHtGz4cqMg (free to watch)
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This 5th century CE Mosaic showcases Thalassa surrounded by the sea and frolicking Erotes. Thalassa is reclining in the sea and holds a fish in one hand and an oar in the other. This mosaic can be found in the Hatay Archaeological Museum, Türkiye.
✨Thalassa, divine personification of the sea✨
Thalassa is thought to have mythological connections to the Mesopotamian goddess Tiamet, as well as the Titan Tethys, which further connects Thalassa as a potential mother of Aphrodite.
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#MosaicMonday & these surviving fragments from a synagogue on Aegina Island 🇬🇷
See more of the ancient places on Aegina in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H89...
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A geometric shaped decorative mosaic. It has a patterned border and central decoration that looks like floral print.
It's #MosaicMonday so please enjoy this mosaic top on a gilt table. It's in the style of Giuseppe Bonzanigo (early 19th century) and is in the Picture Gallery at Attingham Park, Shropshire.
📷John Hammond
#MosaicMonday with this Bird Mosaic at Palazzo Massimo.
Discovered in a necropolis on the former Via Imperiale (Via delle Terme di Caracalla / via Cristoforo Colombo).
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This eerie mosaic depicts Winter holding a bare branch and wearing a birrus (a hooded cloak used extensively in ancient Britain). Its use of cool blue colours, the seeming melancholy in the face & the sparse pale background really conveys the cold barrenness of winter.
🏛️Bignor
📷 mine
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1st C AD Roman floor mosaic depicting Medusa’s head in the central roundel from a luxurious house that was buried in the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius that buried everything in the region, including the towns of #Pompeii and #Herculaneum.
📷 my own, #MANN, Naples.
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Delos, house of the dolphins, detailed view of the eponymous #mosaic from the 2nd century BCE (📸 Ancient Hellas).
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#MosaicMonday with these beautiful patterns sitting in the botanical gardens in Athens, left from a roman villa from c5 AD
see more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...
Mosaico (detalle) de los doce trabajos de Hércules, encontrado en Llíria, Valencia. Siglo III d. C. 🏛️Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 🇪🇦 España 📷 A. M.
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Mosaico (detalle) de los doce trabajos de Hércules, encontrado en Llíria, Valencia.
Siglo III d. C.
🏛️Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 🇪🇦 España
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#Archaeology #Art
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