Roman mosaic
A reconstructed floor from the ancient Roman baths, installed at the Baden Historical Museum.
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I started this blog in Jan 2007 as a member of the City Daily Photo family representing the village of Villigen. I'm a transplant to Switzerland and keeping the blog was a way for me to keep a record of new things I learnt while sharing with others. I was on a long LONG break, and now I post only sporadically although I still have hopes of posting more regularly. Thanks for stopping by and drop me a line if you have questions or comments. Camera and other information at the foot of the page. 20150322
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My current camera is an Olympus OM-D E-M10 (2014). Main lens: Panasonic 20mm f/1.7. Zoom/macro: Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8. Until mid-2014 I had an Olympus PEN-EP2 (2010). Up until June 2010 I used a Panasonic Lumix FZ7 (2006). Occasionally there may appear photos taken with either a Nikon Coolpix 950 that I've had since 2000 or a used Nikon Coolpix 990 I acquired in 2009.
5 comments:
I wonder if there are people out there still do mosaic floor for their baths.
About the cottages or cabins, here people call it either of them. They live there during summer, and back to the city when summer is over. And they are huge.
Gorgeous floor! True artisan work.
Aha - the Romans again. Don't they just crop up everywhere. I don't know about you, but I always have a big problem reconciling the Roman Empire with current day Italy. (Or current day Athens with the ancient Greeks!)
To digress a little, and hijack your post, a lot of people imagine that figurative, representative art developed as a continuous refinement from cave paintings through the renaissance etc. In fact the romans (and greeks) were quite capable of accurate, and indeed beautiful figurative art. It was all done as frescoes however, so survival was always a problem. After the fall of the Roman Empire, art did subside into a rather crude style (in the so called dark ages). Do a search on google for "Roman Fresco". Here's one of my
favourite examples.
Beautiful floor ! Excellent work at that time !
Thanks to all for stopping by and commenting.
Vie Lipowski: I think there are, in the high end luxury market. In fact, some of those cabins of yours might have a mosaic floor or two. :-)
Richard: Thanks for that link, that was a surprise for me. And I agree with you on the reconciling thing...
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