Ancient Mosaics and Artistic Depictions

Vibrant mosaics from ancient Roman villas displaying mythological themes and scenes of daily life, rich in color and historical significance.

Mosaic of Venus, Bignor Roman villa, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Roman fresco depicting Meleager and Atalanta resting after hunting the Calydonian boar. 1st century AD. House of the Centaur. Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Detalle del Tapiz de la Creación, siglo XI, Museo Catedralicio de la Catedral de Girona.

Mosaik mit geometrischer Dekoration Mosaic with geometric decoration, Opus tessellatum, 3rd - 4th century AD, San Sebastián Street, Calahorra, Museum of Romanization, Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22945794

Mosaics, Roman excavation site, Nora, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

PERU. Trujillo. Huaca de la Luna. Huaca de la Luna Archaelogical Complex (100-900). Mural paintings. Moche or Mochica Art.

Portugal, Conimbriga. Mosaic tile floor in Roman ruins.

Mural, excavation of the Roman city of Herculaneum, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy, Europe

Frescoes by Indigenous Artists, 16th century, Casa del Dean, 1580, Oldest House in Puebla, Historic Center, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Puebla City, Puebla State, Mexico, North America

Panel (Spain); cotton, mercerized cotton; 1947-5-1

Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy. Mosaic detail..

KERO PERUANO - DETALLE CON ESCENA RELIGIOSA. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

AnnunciatoryAngel. Artist: Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni, Italian, active Florence, 1369-1415

Emblemata with water-fowls, by Unknown, 18th Century, polychrome mosaic. Italy, Lazio, Rome, National Museum of Rome. All mosaic landscape birds duck snake tree.

St Catherine, by Artista trevigiano, 1400, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Servo, Belluno, Parish church. Detail. Face St Catherine fragmentary fresco.

CRATERA DE LA LOCURA DE HERCULES. DETALLE. GRIEGO CERAMICA. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Angels, detail of frescoes in the crypt of Marienberg Abbey, Burgeis, Vinschgau Valley, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, 12th century.

Angel with Viola, by Ferrari Gaudenzio, 1539 - 1539, 16th Century, fresco transferred to canvas, wooden frame. Italy: Lombardy: Milan: Brera Art Gallery: gia nella Cappella della Nativita della Vergine in Santa Maria della Pace a Milano. Whole artwork. Half-lunette angel viola scroll

Mesopotamian art. Neo-Babylonian. Ishtar Gate, one of the eight gates of the inner wall of Babylon. Built in the year 575 B.C. during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) using glazed blue brick with alternating rows of basrelief with dragons mushussu, also called sirrush, and aurochs. It was dedicated to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Rebuilt in 1930. An aurochs above a flower ribbon. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Bowl with doves, mosaic

Wall paintings of the Sogdian palaces, Afrasiab Museum, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Asia

Russia, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage (aka Winter Palace). The Pavilion Hall, Italian mosaic floor depicting Medusa and mythological scenes, Rome c. 1847-51. (Editorial Usage Only)

Italy - Emilia Romagna - Ravenna - San Vitale Basilica - Apse - Left wall - Empress Theodora - 6th century mosaic - Detail

Hunter with prey animal on poles, hunting dog, Roman mosaics, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piazza Armerina, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Mosaic depicting two figures from ancient times displayed in Antalya Archaeological Museum, Turkey

PANTEON DUQUES OSUNA-RELIEVE DE SAN JERONIMO. Author: ROQUE BALDUQUE (1500-1561). Location: COLEGIATA. Osuna. Seville. SPAIN. SAN JERONIMO (347-420).

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

A Banquet in the Open Air; early 300s; Marble; glass; clay Unknown artist; Roman

ARTE ROMANO. IMPERIO ORIENTE. TURQUIA. Detalle de uno de los mosaicos existentes en el antiguo palacio del Imperio Bizantino. Datados entre los s. V-VI. "NIÑOS SOBRE UN CAMELLO CON UN CAMELLERO". Museo de los Mosaicos (Mozaik Uzesi). Estambul. Turquía.

Spain. Andalusia. Almedinilla. Necropolis of El Ruedo. Roman. 4th-5th century. Mosaic.

mosaico figurativo,casa de los surtidores, primera mitad del siglo II, Conimbriga, ciudad del Conventus Scallabitanus, provincia romana de Lusitania, cerca de Condeixa-a-Nova, distrito de Coimbra, Portugal, europa.

Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana do Casali) is a Roman villa built in the first quarter of the 4th century CE and located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. Containing the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world, it is one of 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. In 1959-60, the archaeologist Gino Vinicio Gentili excavated a mosaic on the floor of the room dubbed the 'Chamber of the Ten Maidens' (Sala delle Dieci Ragazze in Italian). Informally called 'the bikini girls', the maidens appear in a mosaic artwork which scholars named 'Coronation of the Winner'. The young women perform sports including weightlifting, discus throwing, running and ball games. A woman in a toga is depicted with a crown in her hand; one of the maidens holds a palm frond.

Face of a saint, detail of the frescoes of the Church of Santa Maria di Idris, Sassi of Matera (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1993), Basilicata, Italy.

Campania Caserta Santa Maria Capua Vetere Mitreo1. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: Plan, sculptural reliefs, architecture, fresco painting, architectural fragments Object Notes: Discovered in September 1922, one of the best preserved monuments of the habitations for the cult of the Persian god Mithras, dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries A.D. The building consists of a rectangular subterranean hallway of 23 x 3 meters, with painted ceiling. Frescoes and sculptural fragments abound. No information provided by Hutzel. See TCI, Campania, p.184 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 regi

casa pintada con escenas tipicas antiguas, Valldemossa,Mallorca, balearic islands, spain, europe.

Fragment of mural painting, from Fustat

Flying bull, 2019, Sa Bassa Blanca Museum (msbb) Yannick Vu and Ben Jakober, Alcudia, Majorca, Spain, Europe

PINTURA MURAL DE SANT ESTEVE D´ANDORRA LA VIEJA. Author: MESTRE D'ANDORRA.

Mosaic fragments in opus sectile technique, Palazzo Massimo, National Museum of Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Nilotic mosaic of flooding of river Nile in Egypt, from Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, Rome province, Italy, detail: soldiers with shields

Rhino, detail from the Nilotic mosaic of the flooding of the river Nile in Egypt, from the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, Lazio, Italy. Roman civilization, 1st century BC.

Cells with graffiti of the prisoners, Chiaramonte Steri Palace, in the 17th century meeting place of the court of the Holy Inquisition, Palermo, Sicily, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Roman mosaic. Limestones. Secutor versus retiarius. Depiction of the mortal combat between the secutor Astyanax and the retiarius Kalendio. The lanista (gladiator trainer) encourages the combat. Astyanax was the winner (the inscription VICIT appears beside Astyanax). 3rd century AD. From Rome (Italy). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Mosaic, Dionysus Train, Centaur and Maenad, House of Aion, Archaeological Site, Archaeological Park, Paphos, Cyprus, Europe

Mosaic Floor Panel. Unknown

Ariadne is the daughter of Minos. In Greek mythology she was put in charge of the labrinth which held the Minotaur. This painting depicts her abandonment on the island of Naxos, after she had helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur.

Frescoes, 13 century, parish church in St. Michael in Lungau, Salzburg state, Salzburg, Austria, Europe

Samuel AnointingDavid. Artist: Herbert J. Gute, American, 1908-1977

6th century Byzantine Roman mosaic of hunters, from the peristyle of the Great Palace from the reign of Emperor Justinian I, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia

Tomb of the Leopards. ITALY. Tarquinia. Necropolis of Monterozzi. Tomb of the Leopards. Flute player. Etruscan art. Fresco.

Fish Mosaic; 300s stone Unknown Artist roman

300 year- old ceiling paintings murals frescoes in Uma Maheswarar temple in Konerirajapuram near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Vicenç Prunes / Atlas náutico Atlántico y mar Mediterráneo, 1600. Museu Marítim de Barcelona.

Egipto. Tumba 55. Tumba Ramose, situada en la región de las Tumbas de los Nobles, en Abd el-Qurna en la ribera occidental de Luxor.

Italy, Campania, Pompei, fresco of Mercurio, house of Loreio Tiburtino

Lion decorating the processional way of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, glazed bricks

Beato de Liébana, códice de Gerona V204. Museum: CATEDRAL GIRONA ESPAÑA.

Mosaic depicting sacrifice scene

Italy, Herculaneum. City covered with ash when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. where it stayed buried for more than 1,600 years. Original ornate mosaic covered walls. (Large format sizes available)

Historical print from the 19th century, facsimile of the Greek theatre on a vase painting from the 7th century BC depicting Dionysus with Satyrs or demons with two faces, Greece, Europe

England, Dorset, Christchurch, Highcliffe Castle, The Basement Kitchen Tiles

Fresco con la representación de Santa Ana con maforio púrpura. Siglo VIII-primera mitad del siglo IX. Nave norte. Catedral de Faras, Sudán. Galería Faras. Museo Nacional. Varsovia. Polonia.

Arizona State Capitol Museum Phoenix Arizona USA

Guernica mosaic, mosaic school that produces mosaic masters, Spilimbergo, city of mosaic art, Friuli, Italy, Spilimbergo, Friuli, Italy, Europe

Sigiriya Damsels or Cloud Maidens, Sigiriya Lion Rock Fortress, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, Asia

Parade of Teodora, mosaic copy, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century, mosaic school producing mosaic masters, Spilimbergo, city of mosaic art, Friuli, Italy, Spilimbergo, Friuli, Italy, Europe

ESCENA EROTICA - FRESCO POMPEYANO - SIGLO I. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

USA, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Roman mosaic of Silenus from Antioch, 325 AD

Mosaic fragment depicting tiger and two bestiarii, venatores in ancient Rome, Italy, 100-200 AD, Europe

Mosaicos de la casa de orfeo.Ciudad Romana de Volubilis(II d.c.), yacimiento arqueologico.Marruecos.

Partial Mosaic floor from a church depicting a man leading a camel, Negev. Dated 6th Century B.C

Mosaic of soldiers killing children from the 14th century " Slaughter of the Innocents" from the east wall of the ante baptistery. St Marks Basilica, Venice, Veneto Italy

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic: Adam and Eve, late 400s-early 500s. Early Byzantium, Northern Syria, Byzantine period, late 5th-early 6th century. Marble and stone tesserae; overall: 142.9 x 107.3 x 5.7 cm (56 1/4 x 42 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.); mounted: 142.9 x 107.3 x 7 cm (56 1/4 x 42 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.).

Detail of frieze from the Basilica of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 1145...Ornamental frieze and medallions with Old Testament Patriarchs (Adam and Seth)...The frieze was under the roof of the basilica; the medallions were under it'. After J. Wilpert. Plate LIII, fig 121, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928

Mummy portrait. Panel painting. Young man. 3rd century AD. Egypt. Roman times. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

ARTE ROMANICO. ESPAÑA. BASILICA DE SAN ISIDORO. PINTURAS MURALES (siglo XII), que cubren la PARTE INTERIOR DE UNO DE LOS ARCOS DEL PANTEON DE LOS REYES, donde se representa a UN GRUPO DE PASTORES (ANUNCIACION). Detalle de un PASTOR TOCANDO EL CARAMILLO. LEON. Castilla-León.

Egypt - Ancient Thebes (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Valley of the Kings. Temple of Hatshepsut at Dayr al-Bahri (Deir el-Bahri). Hatshepsut, 1490-1468 BC. Loggia of chapel of sky goddess Hathor. Painted reliefs of ritual celebrations

Siena, Duomo Santa Maria, interior, marble floor from 1369, detail with Sienese she-wolf

Rush basket tipped over to show fish and produce of the sea, mosaic, 2nd-4th century A.D., Sousse, Tunisia

UK, England, London, British Museum, Mosaic from Roman Villa at Plazza Armerina in Sicily depicting Seafood

The Madaba Map (also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map) is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map is a map of the Middle East. Part of it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. It dates to the 6th century CE.

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