Ancient Mosaic Artworks

Detail-oriented images of ancient mosaics featuring mythical creatures, floral designs, and historical figures, with rich textures and earthy tones.

Antique floor mosaic at Villa Casale, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Ancient Greek vase. Achilles and Hector. Scene from the Iliad. Crater from cervetari. Berlin Painter. 490 BC.

Ancient Roman mosaic, lovers, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Piazza Armerina, Province of Enna, Sicily, Italy, Europe

This photo of a mosaic showing the Great Hunt (scene of embarking) was taken in the summer of 1970 at Piazza Armerina in Sicily. Piazza Armerina is home to the Roman Villa del Casale and its famous mosaics, the 'finest mosaics in situ anywhere in the Roman world,' as described by UNESCO, which inserted it into its World Heritage list in 1997. Villa Romana was a lavish patrician residence built at the center of a huge latifundium (agricultural estate) at the end of the 4th century AD. It is thought to have belonged to a member of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, who traded in exotic animals. The villa and its mosaics were abandoned for centuries and only rediscovered in the early 19th century.

16th-century murals paintings, Casas Pintadas, Evora, Portugal, Europe

Italy. Tuscany. Siena. Cathedral. Crypt. Frescos.

Italy, Sardinia, Province of Cagliari, The Mosaics of the Archaeological Site of Nora..

PINTURA POMPEYANA. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

Roman mosaic from 2nd century AD at Volubilis, excavated Berber-Roman city from ancient Mauretania near Meknes, Fez-Meknes, Morocco.

Cyprus, Mosaic Of Swan; Soli

Magna Graecia. Lucanian tomb. Greek style painting with italic influence depicting a quadriga. Detail. Tomb 48A. 4th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Paestum. Italy.

Mining Scene. 580 -570 a.C. Black-figure ceramics. Archaic Greek art. Ceramics. GERMANY. BERLIN. Berlin. Staatliche Museen (State Museums).

Christian wallpainting, Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent, c350. Artist: Unknown

Cyprus, archaeological site of Kourion. Detail of ancient Roman mosaic artwork with female portrait.

Erotic scene, 1st Century, fresco on wall

Minoan Art. Crete. The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus. Painted with scenes from Cretan life. Ritual. Bull sacrifice. Woman wearing a crown is carrying two vessels. A man playing a seven string lyre. C.1600 BC-1380 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum.

Mosaic of Daedalus and Icarus with Minos' wife Pasiphae, Gaziantep Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep (Antep), Turkey

mosaic from Bacchus House, monument, Spain, historic, Alcala de Henares, landmark, Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid, travel

Abraham sacrificing Isaac, 6th century mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

Libya, Near Benghazi, Ptolemais (Tolmeita), Museum, Roman Mosaic

MOSAICO COSMOLOGICO - SIGLO II. Location: CASA DEL MITREO. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPAIN.

DETALLE DEL TAPIZ DE LA CREACION - SIGLO XII - ROMANICO ESPAÑOL. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. GERONA. SPAIN.

Magna Graecia. Tom slab. c. 370 BC. Fresc Greek style with italian influence. Return of a Samnite warrior, counted on horseback. Archaeological Museum of Paestum.

Ritual Slaughter of ox, held down by ropes. Tempera painting. 1st Intermediate period (2118-1980 BC). Egypt. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.

MOSAICO DE CASA-BASILICA - CRATERA CON CRUZ GAMADA - SIMBOLO SOLAR. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE ROMANO. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPAIN.

Pintura mural del Banquete del rico Epulón, procedente de la Iglesia de Sant Pere de Sorpe, siglo XII. Museum: Museu Diocesà d'Urgell.

Mosaic trade emblems, Piazzale Delle Corporazioni, Ostia Antica, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Mosaico de Hermes. Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.

Mosaic floor with two dolphins from Kos, Grand Masters Palace built in the 14th century by the Johnnite Order, fortress and palace for the Grand Master, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Old Town, Rhodes Town, Greece, Europe

Kourion, Assyrian Ku-ri-i, ancient Greek, Latin Curium, historical, ancient excavation site, ruin site, mosaic in the house of Eustolius, Cyprus, Europe

Ravenna, Emilia Romagna, Italy, Europe

Dionysus, Telete Skyrtos, mosaic from Zeugma, Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Southeastern Anatolia Region, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia

Lucanian wall-painting of a warrior, 4th century. Artist: Unknown

MOSAICO.HAZAÑAS DE HERCULES:RAPTO DE DEYANIRA POR EL CENTAURO NESO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Casale - Roman mosaic

Greek amphora made in Paestum. Detail. 340-330 BC. Painter of Aphrodite. National Archaeological Museum. Paestum. Italy.

Baptistery mosaic, Ruins at Butrint National Park, Sarande, Albania

Banquet scene, fresco, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, Rome, Italy, 4th century.

Mural In A Roman Villa, Herculaneum, Campania, Italy

Detail of the Scala d'Oro in the Doge's Palace, Venice. Built in Venetian Gothic style the palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice (the supreme authority of the rublic of Venice). It is now open as a museum.

Servants or slaves making preparations for a feast, mosaic, Carthage, 2nd century. Artist: Unknown

Mosaics, murals and frescoes in Terrace House 2 in Curetes Street, terraced houses, excavations, ruins of Ephesus, Efes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Selcuk, Lycia, Southwest Turkey, West Coast, Western Turkey, Asia Minor

Amazonomachy. Detail of horseman. From Daphne, a suburb of Antioch on the Orontes (now Antkaya). 4th century AD. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Wall freize from Pompeii, Naples, Italy. Pompeii was an ancient city located in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79

18th century Murals frescos paintings in Adinath Jain temple at Vidur village near Tindivanam, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Mosaic. Euphrasian Basilica, 6th Century, UNESCO World Heritage, Porec, Istria Peninsula, Croatia.

Mosaic depicting Oceanus and Tethys, from ancient Daphne, Turkey

Mosaic of Antiope with Zeus (Jupiter) in form of a satyr, Gaziantep Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep (Antep), Turkey

OPLONTIS, ITALY, MAY 03, 2022, Beautiful colorful fresco showing a peacock in the Villa Oplontis

France, Haute-Loire Department, Auvergne Region, La Chaise-Dieu, Dance of Death fresco, 15th century

This photo of a mosaic showing a hunting scene (scene of a young man/boy hunting a hare) was taken in the summer of 1970 at Piazza Armerina in Sicily. Piazza Armerina is home to the Roman Villa del Casale and its famous mosaics, the 'finest mosaics in situ anywhere in the Roman world,' as described by UNESCO, which inserted it into its World Heritage list in 1997. Villa Romana was a lavish patrician residence built at the center of a huge latifundium (agricultural estate) at the end of the 4th century AD. It is thought to have belonged to a member of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, who trade

The sin garden room Roman fresco in Oplontis Villa (Villa Oplontis), Oplontis, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Torre Annunziata, Campania, Italy, Europe

Deer mosaic, New House Of Hunt, Bulla Regia Archaeological Site, Tunisia, North Africa

Detail of Roman mosaic depicting Ulysses and sirens, from the House of Dionysus and Ulysses at Thugga (Dougga)

Medieval mosaics on the ceiling of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral, showing scenes from the Garden of Eden, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Colourful floor mosaics from the middle of the 12th century Basilica of Santa Maria e Donato, 7th island of Murano, famous for its glass art, Venice, lagoon city, Veneto, Italy, Venice, Veneto, Italy, Europe

fresco in villa oplontis APRIL 3, 2016. Torre Annunziata Naples, Italy Ancient roman fresco represented a scene of Roman mitology in the Poppea s Villa Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 9886215

The ox, symbol of Luke the Evangelist, 14th century, fresco in the cloister of the Cosmati of the Abbey of Saint Scholastica, Subiaco, Lazio, Italy, 6th-14th century.

Mosaic of a Lion Chasing a Bull; Syria; 5th - 6th century; Mosaic; 81.3 × 149.9 × 6.4 cm (32 × 59 × 2 1,2 in.)

FRESCO - SALTO DEL TORO - II MILENIO AC- PINTURA CRETENSE DEL PALACIO DE CNOSOS- 1600 a JC. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. HERAKLION. GREECE.

Qusayr Amra, Jordan Frescoes of a Wüstenburg Qusayr Amra, Jordan Frescoes of a Wüstenburg

Abruzzo L'Aquila Bominaco S. Pellegrino, Oratory42. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, sculpture (12-13th century) Post-medieval: Fresco cycle (13th century) (Count: 252) German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

MOSAICO ROMANO - NEPTUNO. Location: ALCAZAR. CORDOBA. SPAIN.

The Triumph of Death 14th century frescoes with lady and knight overcome by the smell of an open grave are in the Campo Santo in the Campo dei Miracoli Pisa Tuscany Italy Europe

Fresco depicting procession of carpenters, Carpenter's Workshop at Pompeii

Visconti's Oratory, by Unknown artist, 14th Century, detached fresco replaced in situ. Italy: Lombardy: Varese: Albizzate. Scattering of the bones of St John the Baptist panel yellow red tomb sarcophagus rock mountain

Mosaic of riders on the floor of the central nave, Otranto Duomo, Otranto, Lecce, Apulia, Italy, Europe

Early Christian floor mosaic from the 4th century, Basilica Santa Maria Assunta, Unesco World Heritage Site, Aquileia, Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Italy, Europe

Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Aquileia, stag detail, mosaic.

Portugal. Roman ruins of Villa Cardillio. 1st-4th centuries AD. Detail of a mosaic. Environs of Torres Novas.

Ruins of the ancient copper city of Soli, Soloi, Karovostasi from the early Christian period, mosaic, the swan, mosaic floor in the early Christian basilica, North Cyprus

Floor mosaic depicting birds, Roman Casa de la Pajaros, Santiponce, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Red-figure pottery, Krater, from Civita Castellana, ancient Falerii, Rome province, Italy, detail, Priamus on ground

Mosaic of The River Gods, 3rd cent. A.C., Hatay Archaeology Museum, Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey, Asia

Loin and fox, mosaic copy, Otranto Cathedral, mosaic school producing mosaic masters, Spilimbergo, city of mosaic art, Friuli, Italy, Spilimbergo, Friuli, Italy, Europe

Ajax arrastrando a Cassandra al Templo de Atena (fresco de Pompeya). Museum: MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE NAPOLES ITALIA.

Portrait of a man, close, Roman mosaics, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piazza Armerina, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Wall painting from Pompeii. 1st century AD.

Neptune and Amphitrite, wall mosaic in house no. 22 in the ruined city of Herculaneum, Campania, Italy, Europe

Bull-leaping' fresco from Knossos. Artist: Unknown

DETALLE DEL TAPIZ DE LA CREACION - SIGLO XII - ROMANICO ESPAÑOL. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. GERONA. SPAIN.

Theseus leaving Ariadne, fresco from Pompei

Malta, Rabat: Roman Domus (Roman villa), Mosaic: The Drinking Pigeons of Sosos, Europe

Mosaic, Baths of Caracalla, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Rome, Latium (Lazio), Italy, Europe

Italy, Italia, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Casale, interior view, mosaic, artwork on the floor, Europe

Roman mosaic. Port scenes. 3rd -4th century. From Vega Baja de Toledo. Museum of Hospital de la Santa Cruz. Toledo. Spain. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

Tunisia, Sousse, Mosaic depicting weighin of load from ship carrying iron minerals, from Hadrumetum

Shean valley a mosaic depicting Tyche the guardian Goddess of the city

Roman mosaic. Port scenes. 3rd -4th century. From Vega Baja de Toledo. Museum of Hospital de la Santa Cruz. Toledo. Spain.

Ritual Slaughter of ox, held down by ropes. Tempera painting. Detail of man. 1st Intermediate period (2118-1980 BC). Egypt. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.

cuadriga, Crátera - calyx-Krater-, 440 BC, Agrigento, Attica, Greece, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, ("Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian"), Lisbon, Portugal.

France, Auvergne Rhone Alpes, Ain department (01), Fareins, Flecheres castle (17 th century)

Brauweiler near Pulheim, abbey church of St Nicholas, chapter house, painting in secco technique 11th-12th century

Story of Lycurgus, Roman mosaic, Vienne. FRANCE.

DETALLE DE MOSAICO DEL ANTIGUO BAPTISTERIO DE LA BASILICA DE NEBO - S V. Location: MONTE NEBO. Nación.

Detail from the Standard of Ur (Peace side). Sumerian artefact (circa 2600 BC) excavated from the royal tomb in the city of Ur in the 1920's. South of what is now Baghdad in Iraq. It is an historical account of ancient warfare, and shows a king, subjects, musicians, soldiers and animals

Pavement mosaic depicting Dionysus fighting with the Indians. 4th century. From Villa Rufinella. Roman National Museum. Palazzo Massimo. Rome. Italy.

Banquet in an amphitheatre, mosaic, 2nd century AD Roman, from El Alia, Tunisia, North Africa

Mosaic Fragment with Donkey and Bird. Unknown

Great Palace of Constantinople (East Roman period). Detail of one of the mosaics that decorated the pavements. Fantastic winged animal attacking a deer. 4th-6th century. Great Palace Mosaics Museum. Istanbul, Turkey.

Floor mosaic of the Ktisis, Eustolios Villa, excavation site, Kourion, Cyprus, Europe

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