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Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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MOSAIC OF DIOSCORIDES. most exquisite workmanship. It is formed of very small pieces ofglass, of the most beautiful colours, and of various shades. Thehair, the small leaves which ornament the masks, and the eyebrows,are most delicately expressed. What enhances the value of thismosaic is the name of the artist worked in it—Dioscorides of Samos.The subjects represented in mosaics are in endless variety, andgenerally are derived from mythology or heroic myths. Landscapesand ornaments in borders, in frets, in compartments, intermingledwith tritons, nereids, centaurs, are to be found on them. The prin- PAINTING. 229 cipal subject is in the centre, the rest serves as a bordering orframework.
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MOSAIC PAVEMENT. The Romans brought the art of mosaic to the highest perfection,not with regard to taste and composition, but by adding newmaterials to those which had been employed by the Greeks. Theyobtained their knowledge of this art by their conquests; andtowards the end of the republic they transported to Rome the mostbeautiful pavements of this kind found in the Greek cities whichthey had conquered. The first mosaic of Roman origin was executedin the temple of Fortune at Palestrina, which was restored by Sylla,where it was discovered in 1640. The subject of it has given rise tomuch controversy. The subject is now supposed to be Egyptian,and it is generally considered to represent a popular fete at theinundation of the ISile. Mosaics from this period came into general use, and some weremade small enough to be carried about in the tents of generals intheir campaigns. Caesar carried one with him in his military expe-ditions. In the time of Augustus, coloured glass was generallyemp
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