Roman mosaics
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Overview of ancient Roman mosaics and mosaics in general - LMS Art Docent, 6th grade Core / Ancient Civilizations...
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Editor's Notes
- Look at the expression on this horse’s face! Mosaic:
- Earliest mosaics were made 4-5000 years ago! The Greeks were creating, or as they would say, ‘painting’ mosaics before the Romans - then with the spread of the Roman Empire, mosaics were created in many more places - like Africa, England, Spain, France… Tessare stone, tile ceramic, porcelain, even gold and silver…glass, terra-cotta, marble Mosaic: detail of a bird, from Ravenna. Glass, porcelain, gold! Mosaics are made of materials that are not easily worn out - and many were created as a floor, which were often covered by ruins, protected for centuries and revealed during excavations. Mosaics tell stories much like a painting - thanks to mosaics we know what certain people looked like, what they did during the day, how they hunted, played, fought in wars, interacted with each other. We can also see what kind of wildlife and domesticated animals there were in that day.
- Roman Empire at it’s height - spread mosaic art all over the region -
- Roman Empire - timeline . . . . .
- Roman Empire - timeline . . . . .
- Roman Fish detail
- Emperor Constantine, 11th Century CE, Istanbul, Turkey -
- Vatican Museum, Second Century, Rome
- Very modern-style yet ancient mosaic pattern in Ravenna, Italy
- Alexander from The Battle of Issus, Pompeii (detail) second century, BCE 8 x 15 feet!
- ….a modern example - also present in many roman mosaics
- Costanza
- “The loading of the ostriches”
- Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina
- St. Basilica of St. Vitale, Ravenna Dating back to the 6th century…
- These are both part of larger mosaics in St. Vitale in Ravenna - Byzantine
- Ruled in Constantinople
- Ravenna - Heron and Tortise - detail
- The kithara was the premier musical instrument of ancient Rome and was played both in popular music and in serious forms of music. Larger and heavier than a lyre, the kithara was a loud, sweet and piercing instrument with precision tuning ability. It was said some players could make it cry. From kithara comes our word guitar and though the guitar more directly evolved from the lute, the same mystique surrounds the guitar idols of today as it did for the virtuoso kithara players, the citharista, and popular singers of ancient Rome. Like other instruments, it came originally from Greece and Greek images portray the most elaborately constructed kitharas.
- Many of the instruments and music is taken from Greek culture….
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- 05.32 Mosaic of a Lion in a Roundel, by an unknown Roman Artist found in Tunis, Tunisia, from the 1st century-2nd century A.D. Mosaic 21 5/16 x 21 5/16in. (54.1 x 54.1cm). From the Museum Collection Fund, Brooklyn Museum.
- Sources: Salvatore and Giulia Aglioti, Rome Italy JaYing Wang, mosaic project images http://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk The Institute of Mosaic Art, Oakland, CA Ravenna: Capital of Mosaic by Salabaroli Publications Mosaic Techniques and Traditions by Sonia King The Voices of Silence, by Andre Malraux Mosaics of Piazza Armerina: The hunting by Gino Vinicio Gentili
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