Thursday, March 27, 2014

House of The Faun

with the Alexander Mosaic ( not the original)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Faun







The House of the Faun contains the Alexander Mosaic, depicting the Battle of Issus in 333 BC between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. This mosaic is inspired by or copied from a Greek painting finished in the late fourth century BC,[1] probably by the artist Philoxenus of Eretria.[6]Unlike most Pompeian pavements of the late second and early first centuries, this mosaic is made of tesserae, and not the more common opus signinum, or other kinds of stone chips set in mortar.[7]
The Alexander Mosaic is complemented by other floor mosaics with Nilotic scenes and theatrical masks.[1] Other notable works of art from the House of Faun include an erotic Satyr and Nymph and the fish mosaic, a piece closely resembling other mosaics in Pompeii.[7]








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