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To everything there is a season. For #MosaicMonday, a late-C4 floor mosaic gracefully showing the months. The long season of #mosaic supremacy in #Ostia was waning, as top artisans shifted to the spectacular #opussectile of contemporaneous luxury villas.
Look at Junius Bassus. His father, the Consul of 331, built a magnificent private aula or reception hall on the #Esquiline hill, encrusted with classical #opussectile. Junius the Younger still used this grand space to receive clients as a proto-feudal Roman grandee.
Hot property. A cross-section from the Villa of the #Quintilii shows the brick skeleton of a huge hypocaust network, a vast thermodynamic machine designed to transform the #opussectile above into an active sensory experience, warmed from below by enslaved labour. #MosaicMonday
La cathédrale de Sienne (Italie 🇮🇹) est d’une beauté exceptionnelle. Son pavement intérieur est extraordinaire. « Le plus beau, le plus grand et le plus magnifique [sol] qui ait jamais été réalisé. » Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) #Sienne #Siena #cathédrale #opussectile
![NavalWSE's tweet photo. La cathédrale de Sienne (Italie 🇮🇹) est d’une beauté exceptionnelle. Son pavement intérieur est extraordinaire. « Le plus beau, le plus grand et le plus magnifique [sol] qui ait jamais été réalisé. » Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) #Sienne #Siena #cathédrale #opussectile https://t.co/RHTp65fZJv](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIs-cm4XkAA1BEL.jpg)
![NavalWSE's tweet photo. La cathédrale de Sienne (Italie 🇮🇹) est d’une beauté exceptionnelle. Son pavement intérieur est extraordinaire. « Le plus beau, le plus grand et le plus magnifique [sol] qui ait jamais été réalisé. » Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) #Sienne #Siena #cathédrale #opussectile https://t.co/RHTp65fZJv](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIs-cmzWkAArqKI.jpg)
![NavalWSE's tweet photo. La cathédrale de Sienne (Italie 🇮🇹) est d’une beauté exceptionnelle. Son pavement intérieur est extraordinaire. « Le plus beau, le plus grand et le plus magnifique [sol] qui ait jamais été réalisé. » Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) #Sienne #Siena #cathédrale #opussectile https://t.co/RHTp65fZJv](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIs-cmyWYAAtS2Z.jpg)
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#MosaicMondayは、私たちを #Rome の #Vittoriano の奥深くへと連れて行き、広場 #Venezia の南部にある未知の建物から発掘された、滅多に見ることのない壮観な後期古代の #opussectile 床モザイクを発見します。
まるで現代に作られた？と錯覚しそう。😲
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#MosaicMonday takes us deep into the #Vittoriano in #Rome to discover a rarely-seen and spectacular late antique #opussectile floor from an unknown building in the southern part of piazza #Venezia. @IstitutoViVe
#MosaicMonday takes us deep into the #Vittoriano in #Rome to discover a rarely-seen and spectacular late antique #opussectile floor from an unknown building in the southern part of piazza #Venezia. @IstitutoViVe
For #FrescoFriday this week, which has been focused on the #Pantheon in #Rome, here's a #fresco fragment from around 1200, which once decorated the eastern curved chapel. It has an intriguing scene of roofed houses below a complex #geometric band that imitates #opussectile work.
#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #Lateran quarter in #Rome, where the remains of a shattered #opussectile floor from the C4 CE show the longevity of the huge #domus of L. #Licinius #Sura, a general of #Tiberius in the early C1 CE.
#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome, this time to look at the dazzling #opussectile floor of the #domus of #PortaMarina from #OstiaAntica, 385-388 CE. Its complex #geometric design makes it the most perfect floor of its kind in #LateAntiquity.
Floating up from the darkness of late antiquity is this #opussectile #octopus from the #domus of #PortaMarina in #OstiaAntica, now in the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome. This sea creature in giallo antico comes from somewhere in the famous opus sectile room, dating from 385-388 CE.
#MosaicMonday brings us to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome for these two faces in #opussectile from the #domus of #PortaMarina in #OstiaAntica, dating to 385-388 CE. This splendid house had a mysteriously short life, and these faces seem to be reacting to imminent destruction.
#MosaicMonday once again draws us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in the #EUR in the south of #Rome to marvel at the #domus of #PortaMarina from #OstiaAntica, where a central alcove imitates humble brick and #tufo, complete with shadows, in costly #opussectile.
#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in the #EUR, and to the breathtaking #opussectile hall of the #domus of #PortaMarina in #OstiaAntica, to get an overall view of the north wall. This is #LateAntiquity at its most refined, a real masterpiece of stonework.
#MosaicMonday for the next few weeks will be obsessing over the incredible #opussectile room of #PortaMarina, from the very edge of #OstiaAntica, though the room is now hidden away in the former Museo dell'Alto Medioevo in the #EUR. #Christ takes centre stage on the south wall.
#MosaicMonday invites us to enter the beautiful #HouseofCupidandPsyche in #OstiaAntica, built on #Hadrian-era structures. This is one of the few remaining examples of #mosaic #polychromy in the city, but step in and you'll find the staggering #opussectile floors of the #domus.
#MosaicMonday brings us not #mosaic but #opussectile from the cult hall of the Templum Pacis, built by #Vespasian as a place of contemplation off the busy #ForumTransitorium. The #pavement was restored under the #Severans and into late antiquity, as the hall was still used.
#MosaicMonday in the #LateranBaptistery offers us, among many beautiful examples of #mosaic work, this extremely rare survival of late-antique #opussectile, one of the most magnificent in #Rome, in the imperial colours of purple and green.
A true curiosity for #SpoliaSunday: reused C6 #mosaic squares in the #opussectile pavement of #SanVitale in #Ravenna, from a restoration of the C16. The ancient mosaic pieces almost certainly come from the flood-damaged original floor of the basilica.
For #MosaicMonday we're back at #VillaAdriana near #Tivoli outside #Rome to admire a surprisingly complex #opussectile pavement in the reception area of #Hadrian's Villa called the Piazza d'Oro. Most of the original stone likely ended up at Villa d'Este. @TIvoliUnesco
This could almost be a #SpoliaSunday post if such posts looked at the sources of spoliation and what got left behind. The C5 #opussectile floor of the #Milan #baptistery was made from local stone, while the C4 octagonal font was clad by Ambrose in marble from all over the empire.
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