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The mosaics of the scutulatum style have the appearance of a simple mosaic pavement lacking figural decoration and were in use throughout the entire Roman Empire. [ 3 ] Pliny ( Naturalis Historia XXXV.185) reports that opus scutulatum was first used in Rome at the beginning of the Third Punic War (149 BC) in the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Hackney Mosaic Project is a community project based in Hackney, London that helps people with addiction and mental health problems by teaching them to create mosaic artworks. It was started by artist Tessa Hunkin in 2011 and is made up of volunteers, many of whom are referred by Lifeline or the Hackney Recovery Service.
A Roman mosaic on a wall in the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum, Italy, 1st century AD. A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings, [1] on both floors and walls, though they competed with cheaper frescos for ...
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Roman mosaic was a minor art, though often on a very large scale, until the very end of the period, when late-4th-century Christians began to use it for large religious images on walls in their new large churches; in earlier Roman art mosaic was mainly used for floors, curved ceilings, and inside and outside walls that were going to get wet.
A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples.. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...
Fathy, Ehud. “The asàrotos òikos Mosaics as an Elite Status Symbol”. Potestas: Estudios del Mundo Clásico e Historia del Arte 10 (2017): 5-30; Fathy, Ehud. “From Earthly to Divine: The Transition of the asàrotos òikos Motif into Late Antiquity and Early Christian Art”. En Humanitas 75 (2020): 93–120. Elderkin, George Wicker.
The Hinton St Mary Mosaic is a large, almost complete Roman mosaic discovered at Hinton St Mary, Dorset, England in 1963. It appears to feature a portrait bust of Jesus Christ as its central motif, which could be the oldest depiction of Jesus Christ anywhere in the Roman Empire. [1] A second mosaic was found during 2022 excavations on the site. [2]