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✨Orpheus✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate Orpheus, whose musical gifts were such that he was capable of attracting all manner of animals to his side. In this mosaic panel, found near Edessa and dated to 194 CE, Orpheus plays his lyre and predator and prey alike are soothed by his song.

#AncientRome #History #Orpheus

Nina Willburger 1d ago

For #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic in the basilica of #Aquileia depicting #snails in a basket.
The meaning of the motif is unclear. It was suggested that it is a symbol of resurrection, as snails are hibernating animals. But it was also argued that the motif is a symbolic representation of the dishes most favoured by the upper class during holy feasts.

Dating 4th century AD.

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Ulla Rajala 1d ago

The Judgement of Paris dated to the 3rd Century AD. Roman Mosaic from the Villa del Alcaparral in Casariche. Now in Museum of Archaeology, Seville. #MosaicMonday

~meoralis~3d ago

#FotoVorschlag: Glänzend // Shiny

Ein hübsch glänzendes #Glasmosaik in #Potsdam auf dem #Luisenplatz, das an drei preußische Königinnen erinnern soll.
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A shiny #glass #mosaic in Potsdam's Luisenplatz Square, commemorating three Prussian queens.

#Mosaik #MosaicMonday #Mosaikkunst #mosaicArt #Glas #Krone #crown #art #Kunst #öffentlicheKunst #publicArt

Art History Animalia Mar 24

For #NationalCoyoteDay on #MosaicMonday :
#Coyote Head
Toltec, Early Post-Classic (900-1250 CE)
Offering of the El Corral Shrine, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Ceramic vessel with shell mosaic and bone, H 13 x W 9.6 cm
INAH https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/guerrero-coyote
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

e.w. niedermeyer Mar 23

wishing you all a very cheeky #mosaicmonday

The Partial Historians Mar 23

✨Cyrene ✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate the princess Cyrene who leant her name to the Greek colony in Libya. In myth she is known as the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths and the Naiad Chlidanope. Her sons by Apollo were Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus sounds like the kind of god we’d love to met as he was the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Cyrene herself was famous as a huntress, and reputedly called ‘lionkiller’, and was at times a companion of Artemis.

#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History

Ulla Rajala Mar 23

The cobblestone mosaics are a modern German speciality. They are commonly attributed to the paver Alois Krems. His work was inspired by pavings in southern France. In the late 19th century, as part of major road reconstruction works, several roads were repaved between 1901 and 1911. #MosaicMonday

The Partial Historians Mar 16

✨Crocodile✨

May your #MosaicMonday go as well as this crocodile with a very wide smile! This ‘Nilotic’ mosaic was found on the Aventine and can now be enjoyed in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

Ulla Rajala Mar 16

The Roman mosaic in Nennig, Germany, is one of the largest of Roman mosaic art of the 2nd and 3rd century. North of the Alps, this mosaic is one of the very few that remained at their original site. A local farmer discovered it in 1852 by accident. The mosaic was in a Roman villa. #MosaicMonday