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Incidental discovery Sketch surveyed during excavations published by La Blanchère in 1888. [1]The mosaic, along with part of the house, was unearthed in 1886-1887 by soldiers led by General Bertrand, "commandant de la subdivision de Sousse", [2] when they dug a sump [3] in the regiment's garden [2] occupied by an olive grove. [4]
A large riad garden (Le Jardin Secret) in Marrakesh, part of a former private mansion rebuilt in the 19th century [9] [10] In Marrakesh the flat landscape and ample space within its city walls meant that houses could have larger courtyards and fewer stories, in contrast with those of Fez. Most older houses had only a ground floor, or at most an ...
The Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana dû Casali) is a large and elaborate Roman villa or palace located about 3 km from the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Excavations have revealed Roman mosaics which, according to the Grove Dictionary of Art , are the richest, largest and most varied collection that remains, [ 1 ] for which ...
Amidst the historicist façades lining the elegant Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan, the entire ensemble of house, garden and interior – culminating in the dining room with the celebrated Tree of Life frieze by Klimt– struck the Belgian architects as belonging to another world. "I think I'm on the planet Mars!"
A large peristyle, a porticoed courtyard that surrounded the garden complete with statues and fountains, was surrounded by a series of elaborate rooms with mosaics. The most important room was the triclinium with the Seasons mosaic. It was first built in the Augustan age and modified at the end of the 2nd century.
Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection Pompeii map Plan. The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology.
The mosaic, laid in opus vermiculatum, was described as a "Pompeian pavement" and is most likely a copy of a c. 1st-2nd century AD Roman mosaic acquired by Wentworth during the family's Grand Tour to Italy in 1858-59. The tails and fins of fish, fragments of the larger mosaic from which it has been cut, can be seen above the head and horn.
By way of an outside staircase he first entered a medium-sized reception room from which double doors almost seventeen feet high opened into a large hall clad in mosaic. He then ascended several steps, passed through a round room with domed ceiling, and saw before him a gallery 480 feet (150 m) long.
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