Skip to main content

GREEK MOSAICS



One very difficult, and most considers as a “special” art form is the Mosaics. These are images or pictures made by setting small colored stones, pieces of marble, or glass in cement. As early as the 400’s B.C. some adequate and fine mosaics were made in Greece. Black and white pebbles were set in a cement floor to depict animals, flowers, and figures of men.

Designs were very difficult to set and most requires much time and attention, especiially on details. Sometimes these floors had complex border designs. The mosaics functioned as ornamental floor coverings in important rooms of the house and buildings.

In the 200’s and 100’s an advanced method was developed. Small, brightly colored cubes of marble, glass, or tile were used as an alternative of pebbles. Many of these mosaics have endures to our own time.

Published: December 29, 2018


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Articles

BRAZIL: SETE DE SETEMBRO

Brazil, as we all know - a great big nation in the South American Continent that expanded from the Amazon Basin in the north to vineyards and massive Iguaçu Falls in the south. However, the proud nation did start from the 15 donatry captaincy colonies, originally established on the Northeast Atlantic coast near the 46th Meridian West also known as Tordesillas Line of 1494 . This did put the boundary between neighboring colonies of the Spanish Crown. On the month of April, 1500 - as recorded, Pedro Álvares Cabral claimed the land for Portugal. Brazilians don't celebrate their discovery like it was a very big day for all of them - like it was the day that their story really began. NO! For the reason that their history reaches way past thousands of years before the Portuguese fleet came. The rich history of this land started with the indigenous people of Brazil. The region where the Portuguese explorers anchored was already inhabited by hundres of different tribes...
2 comments
Read more

THE FILIPINO LANGUAGE

Learning the Filipino language is pretty fun and easy. It's a mix of native Filipino language and Spanish and English. Thus, if you know Filipino language, you can say that you know Spanish amd English as well. Think about this. Filipino loves borrowing words from it's colonizers. So, almost all Filipino words for all things present from before 1900s are from the Spanish like kutsara, plato, banyo, radio, sobrero and many more. Thus for the new invented things on today's modern technology, Filipino borrows from the English language. Like the internet, cellphone, computer, and the likes. All Filipino words for all things which came from Europe at the time when Philippines was under Spain are Spanish or a little modified Spanish. Now, to show that the Filipino language is also evolving: Charoot has may meaning, Filipino use this word for almost everything in replacement for the vulgar words and unknown terms. But most of the time it means, “just kidding...
1 comment
Read more