Roman Mosaics and Frescoes

A collection of intricate Roman mosaics and frescoes depicting mythological scenes, figures, and historical narratives from various archaeological sites.

Germany, Cologne. Roman Germanic Museum. Dionysos Mosaic, 2nd century masterpiece Roman mosaic floor.

The Indian Triumph of Bacchus. Roman mosaic panel. 3rd-4th centuries AD. Detail. From Torre de Palma Lusitan-Roman villa, Monforte, Portalegre district, Portugal. National Archaeology Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

Italy, Sicily, Enna, Piazza Armerina. Villa Romana Del Casale. Detail Of A Roman Mosaic With A Male And Female Figure Encircled

Roman mosaic depicting Ariadne sleeping. Detail of the mosaic Meeting between Ariadne and Dionysus. 4th century. Anniboni. National Museum of Roman Art. Merida. Spain.

Herod orders the slaughter of the Innocents, early Christian frescoes, hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle, Verona (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2000), Veneto. Detail. Italy, 5th century.

Germany, Cologne. Roman Germanic Museum. Dionysos Mosaic, 2nd century masterpiece Roman mosaic floor.

Roman fresco depicting Iphigenia in Tauris. Detail. 1-50 AD. Tablinium. House of Lucius Caecilius Lucundus. Pompeii, Italy. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Mosaic of the Four Seasons. C. 325 AD. Found in Daphne (now Antakya, Turkey). Detail of Eros. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

AMIMONE Y CUPIDO - MOSAICO DE LA VILLA DE MATERNO CINEGIO - S IV. Location: VILLA ROMANA. CARRANQUE. Toledo. CUPID. AMYMONE. AMOR MITOLOGIA.

Detail of Pompeii site. The city of was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius

MOSAICO ROMANO"LOS TRABAJOS DE HERCULES" DET"HERCULES CAPTURA A LA CIERVA LERINIA". Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Italy - Sicily Region - Piazza Armerina (Enna province) - Villa Romana del Casale (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), mosaic of the Small Hunt, offerings of the hunt leader to the altar of Artemis Agrotera (4th century A.D.), detail

Lararium. 4th style wallf fresco. Scene of a Genius, assited by a Camillus, sacrificing at an altar as a musician plays de tibia and a slave approaches driving a sacrificial pig. Beneath the scene of serpents, bringers of prosperity and abundance. Pompeii, VII, 6, 3. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Mosaic of Iphigenia in Aulis, 3rd cent. A.C., Hatay Archaeology Museum, Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey, Asia

Tunisia, Central Western Tunisia, Makthar, ruins of the Roman-era city of Mactaris, mosaic panel

Mosaic Museum, Boys, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia

The farewell, fresco, Tomb of The Baron, Necropolis of Tarquinia (Unesco World Heritage List, 2004), Lazio, Italy. Etruscan civilization, 6th-5th century BC.

CURACION DE LA HEMORROISA - MILAGRO DE JESUS - PINTURA EN ESTUCO - PRINCIPIOS DEL SIGLO IV. Location: CATACUMBAS DE SAN PEDRO Y MARCELINO. Rome. ITALIA.

Algeria, Timgad, Mosaic work depicting Neptune on his chariot

Triumph of Neptune. Neptune, Roman god of the sea (Greek: Poseidon) carrying his trident and riding in chariot pulled by horses with dolphin tails. 2nd century AD mosaic from Sousse (Susah). Bardo Museum, Tunis.

Israel, Nazareth, Zippori, Sepphoris, Floor mosaic depicting scenes from the life of Dionysus (Bacchus) from the Roman villa, detail of a centaur

Neptune and Amphitrite, mosaic in the summer Triclinium of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, Herculaneum (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1997), Campania, Italy, Roman civilization, 1st century.

Ben Arous, Tunisia. Roman mosaic floor showing an agrarian scene at the Uthina Archaeological Site.

Spain, Andalusia, Seville province, Santiponce. Roman city of Italica. Founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Scipio. House of the Planetarium. Mosaic which represents the seven stars of the solar system known at that time by the Romans. Each planet is personified by a god, in turn, symbolises a day of the week. Detail of Jupiter (Thursday).

Roman mosaic showing centaurs, mythological creatures with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse

Roman mosaic. 1st cent. Cherchell Museum. Travaux Champetre. Pruning vines.

This photo of a mosaic showing a detail from the chamber of Arione 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.

Mosaic depicting a banquet at Carthage from Uzitta, Henchir El Machceba, Tunisia, detail, a servant pouring a drink to a guest

Mosaic in the Villa of Aion, Paphos Archaeological Park, Cyprus, Europe

Roman mosaic. Detail. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

Roman mosaic Hunter with dead deer. Merida (Augusta Emerita). Spain. National Museum of Roman Art. Merida. Spain. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

Algeria, Djemila, Detail of boy riding a dolphin in Mosaic work depicting Venus at her toilet

Painting with red background with representation of satyr and nymph. Pompeii. 59-79 AD. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina mosaic in Roman Villa, the Bikini girls

Donkey rider, Roman mosaic, Volubilis, Voloubilis, Morocco, Africa

Mosaic of the Four Seasons. C. 325 AD. Found in Daphne (now Antakya, Turkey). Detail: Eros playing a pan flute. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Woman holding a long scarf, Roman mosaics, Villa Romana del Casale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Piazza Armerina, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Medea thinking about killing her children. 1st c. Medea plans to kill her children. Fresco painting. Roman art. Early Empire. Fresco. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: ITALY. CAMPANIA. NAPLES. Pompeii.

gladiator fight. Mosaic. 3rd century. Rome. Two Eques flanked by two lanistae. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

Detail of a Roman floor mosaic showing dice players, 3rd century. Artist: Unknown

Death of Laocoon and his sons, attacked by serpents sent by the gods. House of Laocoon. Wall painting. Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

MOSAICO ROMANO CON FABULA DE POLIFEMO Y GALATEA. Location: ALCAZAR. CORDOBA. SPAIN.

MOSAICO CIRCENSE DE BELL-LLOCH - DETALLE DEL AURIGA CALIMORFUS - ARTE ROMANO EN ESPAÑA. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO DE CATALUÑA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Depiction of Spring, detail from the mosaic in the House of Dionysus and Four Seasons, Roman city of Volubilis (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), Morocco. Roman civilisation, 3rd century AD.

Mosaic of Three Graces. Roman culture, Opus Tessellatum, marble of different colors and glass paste. 3rd Century AD. Teaching Convent, Barcelona.

Detail of the Standard of Ur, showing a Sumerian War-Chariot, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Artist: Unknown

Detail from a Greek geometric period vase, 9th century BC. Artist: Unknown

AYAX VIOLA EL TEMPLO DE ATENEA AL LLEVARSE A PROFETISA CASANDRA.CRATERA GRIEGA - SIGLO IV AC. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA. CASSANDRA. ATENEA PARTHENOS. AYAX (AJAX). AJAX (AYAX).

La Cataluña eterna. Mural de Torres García. Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona. Author: JOAQUIN TORRES-GARCIA.

Saint Lucia tied to oxen, wall paintings of Osia, XIII century, fresco torn and transferred to canvas, come from the hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Osia, Diocesan Museum of Jaca, Huesca, Spain.

Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, mosaics of the roman villa of Casale, 3rd century

Cyprus - Paphos

Roman mosaic, Circa 6th century AD. Shows servants or slaves at work

Red-figure pottery, pelike depicting young girl offering pomegranate, restored by Sommavilla Painter

Byzantine mosaic display at historic Beit ed-Dine, Beiteddine Palace of Emir Bashir, Chouf, Lebanon, Middle East, West Asia, Asia

Italy, Sicily, Villa Imperiale del Casale, Ruins of Late 3rd century Roman Villa mosaics

Neptune and Amphitrite. Roman mosaic in the Nymphaeum of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite. 70 A.C. Wall mosaic in House number 22. Herculaneum. Italy.

Turkey, Eastern Anatolia, Hatay, Mosaic museum, Yakto mosaic

Attic Red figure krater with niobid by Master of Niobids, 460 b.C. Museum: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, FERRARA, ITALIA.

Gladiator fight. Mosaic. 3rd century. Rome. Defeated Maternus, with crossed-out O, simbol of deat. Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

Detail of Amphora depicting duellists

Virgil and the Muses. 3rd c. Roman art. Mosaic. TUNISIA. Tunis. Bardo Museum. Proc: TUNISIA. SUSAH. Sousse. Hadrumetum.

Red-figure pottery, Attic vase, detail: zither female player

MOSAICO DEL TRITON ENCONTRADO EN UNA DE LAS PISCINAS DE LAS TERMAS DE LA VILLA ROMANA DE LA COCOSA - SIGLO IV. Location: DIPUTACION PROVINCIAL. SPAIN.

Red-figure pottery, detail of cup attributed to Makron depicting Philomela, Procne and Itys

Jason and the Golden Fleece with Medea, 2nd cent. AD. Germano-Roman.

Circus mosaic. 310. Roman art. Late Empire. Mosaic. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia.

Roman fresco depicting Pan playing the double flute with a nymph playing the lyre and two other nymphs accompanying them. Detail. House of Jason (20-25). Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Painting in the Fourth Pompeian style depicting a Maenad holding a thyrsus, 100 cm x 113 cm. Roman Civilization, 1st Century.

Evil eye, roman mosaic, 2nd century, Hatay Archaeological Museum, Antioch, Turkey

Mosaic in the Triclinium, dining room, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy

HERCULES EN EL JARDIN DE LAS HESPERIDES - SIGLO IV. Location: CATACUMBAS DE LA VIA LATINA. Rome. ITALIA.

MOSAICO ROMANO- LA GRAN CABEZA DE OCEANO. Location: ALCAZAR. CORDOBA. SPAIN.

Frieze in the dining-hall (Triclinium) of the house of Pammachius, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 385 AD...Figured frieze in the...house of Pammachius (d. 409 or 410) below the church of S. Giovanni e Paolo...painted figures of youths, festoons and birds'. After Joseph Wilpert. XLVII, fig 105, 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

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

Odysseus (Ulysses) tied to the mast of his ship to save him from the Sirens. Homer Odyssey, epic Greek poem. Roman mosaic, 3rd century AD, Tunis.

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

Fresco depicting a triclinium scene from Pompeii, Italy

Roman mosaic with marine and rural scenes. Late Imperial, late 2nd-3rd C. AD. Detail. Workman with oxes. Museum Metropolitan. NY. USA.

Red-figure pottery, Krater attributed to Kleophon Painter, detail, running Maenad

Floor mosaic of Hercules, Volubilis, Morocco, Africa

Attic cup depicting a scene of seduction, ca 450 BC, attributed to the painter of Evanio, from the Necropolis of Vulci, Italy. Detail. Greek Civilization, 5th Century BC.

Roman fresco showing lady palying musical instrument. ITALY.

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

Menander (c. 342/41 - c. 290 BCE) wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. One of the most popular writers of antiquity, his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is known in modernity in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost entirely.

Sacred-idyllic landscape with figures, by Unknown artist, 25,1st Century, mural. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: Cubicolo E parete sinistra dell'alcova. Detail. Column young woman peplum

Jaeger with shield, aisle of the great hunt, mosaic floor, 3rd, 4th c. Roman luxury villa, Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Roman fresco depicting a statue of Apollo, next to the omphalo, the stone covered by a net that marked the center of the universe. 1st century BC. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Hunting scene in the amphitheater, by Unknown, 4th Century, polychrome mosaic. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Ravenna, National Museum. Whole artwork. Fragment polychrome tesserae head mane lion.

Mexico.Mexico city.National Museum of Antropology.Maya culture.Ceramic dish.

Vase, decoration depicting victory crowns an athlete with olive branch, detail

Bulgaria - Kazanlak - 4th century b.C. - Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak. UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979. Fresco

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

Medallion with boy's portrait, fresco, from Casa degli Amorini Dorati (House of Golden Cupids) in Pompeii

Fragment of a wall painting. Date/Period: 600 - 799. Wall Painting. Fresco. Height: 290 mm (11.41 in); Width: 320 mm (12.59 in). Author: UNKNOWN ARTIST.

Mosaic of Medusa and the seasons. Detail of the central part. Roman period. 4th century AD. Limestone. From Palencia, Castile and Leon, Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Vase-painting of a youth playing the flute and a woman dancing, 6th century BC. Artist: Epikektos

Gallant conversation. 5th c. BC. Red-figure ceramic. Classical Greek art. Ceramics. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Capitoline Museums.

Fresco in the Via Latina Catacomb, Rome. Italy, 4th century BC.

Perseus and the Gladiator63-79 A.D.FrescoPompeii, Italy

Chariot race (3rd c.). Roman art. Early Empire. Mosaic. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: ITALY. LAZIO. ROME. Rome.

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