✨Cave Canem✨ We’re not saying this excellent doggo is particularly dangerous, but they are guarding the Casa di Paquius Proculus in Pompeii, so best be careful! Also this doggo comes with a labrys (double axe) and a shield and spear!
#mosaicmonday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mosaicmonday, aggregated by home.social.
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This delightful mosaic once decorated the courtyard of the so-called House of the Drinking Contest, near the port of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. The mosaic is thought to date to C3rd CE and depicts erotes frolicking among Mediterranean marine life.
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Do you feel like you’ve just been tossed unceremoniously into a chariot race? Welcome to the all new *empathetic* #MosaicMonday where your feelings about still having to engage in capitalism while tech billionaires ruin it for us all are validated by ancient mosaics.
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A centaur and Pan (or a satyr) with his pipes. Detail of the Orpheus Mosaic (3rd-4th century CE), found near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. #MosaicMonday
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A centaur and Pan (or a satyr) with his pipes. Detail of the Orpheus Mosaic (3rd-4th century CE), found near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. #MosaicMonday
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Something cheery to start the week 😀 Hope you have a great one!
A post for #MosaicMonday. This tree of knowledge mosaic is on the wall of a school library. From www.mosaicart.org.uk -
Hope your Monday hasn’t shocked the system like it seems to have for this guy! His Leafiness comes from a larger mosaic depicting a bear hunt from the C4th CE. He’s not involved, but is hanging about in the foliage border.
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Enjoy this extremely fine parrot who looks like they might just know a secret or two.
This mosaic is from Pergamon and dates to the mid-C2nd BCE. The parrot is known variously as the Alexandrine Parakeet or the Alexander Parrot in honour of Alexander the Great.
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#MosaicMonday with this beautiful geometric mosaic floor from the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Merida 🇪🇸
See more from Spain in our new episode from the north around Burgos & Cantabria >>>
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#MosaicMonday with damaged mosaics from Baiae, Bay of Naples 🇮🇹
Dated to around c2 ADSee more of Baiae in the new episode >>>
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Here’s the Corinthian hero Bellerophon riding Pegasus while slaying the Chimera.
The Chimera was a monstrous fire-breathing creature from Lycia. It was often depicted as a lion with a goat's head protruding from its back and a tail ending with a snake's head.
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In the Roman republic, Vedius Pollio gained quite a reputation for treating his slaves badly by feeding them to eels, but it also turns out that Vedius’ dad had been a slave which might explain just how terribly he was trying to escape his familial history…
Someone get Freud on the line!
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Happy #MosaicMonday! It's no surprise that Half Moon Bay, California, home of an annual pumpkin festival and giant pumpkin weigh--off, also has a giant mosaic pumpkin.
More info here: https://www.hmbpumpkinfest.com/featured-exhibits/worlds-biggest-pumpkin-sculpture.html
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It’s time to mosey on into a new #MosaicMonday with some fantastic marine life. In this amazing scene, fish and their sea fellows occupy the water and the sky!
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Let yourself float on the gentle tides of the Mediterranean (even if only in your imagination in this moment). Feel the calm waters and the little fish brush past your fingertips. Wave to the passing squid with the long and short tentacles.
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CW: stylized nude painting
La dance (Bacchante), by Jean Metzinger, 1906.
Looks like a mosaic, but it's oil on canvas
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Feel the seasons upon you with this mosaic fragment from the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia.
If you can make it there, it’s well worth the visit with ancient artefacts scattered throughout the Baroque collection. #AncientRome #MosaicMonday
