Pompeii Floor Mosaics

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Pompeii floor mosaics. Feb 15 2014 mosaics found in pompeii italy. The renowned alexander mosaic from the house of the faun in pompeii probably copies a greek painting done by philoxenos of c. Mosaic today includes not just murals and pavements but also artwork hobby crafts and industrial and construction. It depicts a battle between the armies of alexander the great and darius iii of persia and measures 2 72 by 5 13 metres.

The date of the mosaic fluctuates between the 3rd century bc and late 4th century very soon after the battles would have taken place. A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone glass or ceramic held in place by plaster mortar and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration and were particularly popular in the ancient roman world. Image caption many of pompeii s ruins have floor mosaics file pic italian police have detained a british woman suspected of removing some small roman tiles from a mosaic at pompeii.

Mosaic copies of the original from pergamum granted that the one found in villa adriana might actually be the sosos work itself have been found at delos pompeii viii 2 34. This is the liveliest both for the number of doves that have been depicted and for the fact that one of them is still flying ostia and rabat not to mention the more than thirty six garden painting variations that. British tourist 20 is arrested in italy after cutting tiles from a floor mosaic in pompeii and putting them in her backpack to take home as a souvenir the woman was on holiday with her father. 300bc roman mosaics were a common way of decorating the floors and.

It is typically dated in the second half of the century between 120 and 100 b c. See more ideas about pompeii and herculaneum herculaneum pompeii. The house of the faun was the largest and most expensive residence in ancient pompeii and today it is the most visited of all the houses in the famous ruins of the ancient roman city on italy s western coast the house was a residence for an elite family and it took up a whole city block with an interior of some 3 000 square meters nearly 32 300 square feet.