Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184.
The unswept floor mosaic.
A mosaic from hadrian s villa now in the capitoline museums depicts a group of doves on a round bowl.
Herakleitos makes the unswept floor mosaic variant of a 2nd century bc painting by sosos of pergamon.
Detail from a mosaic that once decorated the dining room floor of a villa on the aventine hill rome at the time of the emperor hadrian.
As described by pliny it is a floor mosaic which depicted the leftovers of a meal on a floor.
This is a video showing the unswept floor mosaic on exhibit at the vatican museum.
The unswept floor mosaic can assume almost any guise and pop up in an almost infinite variety of modern versions but it still remains firmly attached to its ancient roots.
By sosos of pergamon and here by the.
This splendid mosaic made up of tiny pieces of glass and coloured marble once decorated the floor of the dining room of a villa on the aventine hill in rome at the time of the emperor hadrian.
There is a even a specific greek term for this asaroton.
The unswept floor mosaic by herakleitos in the decorative style known as asàrotos òikos inspired by sosus of pergamon 2nd century ad museum gregoriano profano vatican.
The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c.
The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon.
The idea is to give the appearance of real objects littering a floor as a kind of trompe l oeil effect.
The unswept floor is a theme from classical mosaics such as one to be found in the vatican.
This was said to represent the floor of a dining room after a banquet.
Unswept floor mosaic in canterbury.
2nd or 3rd century standing buddha from gandhara is made.
The unswept floor that was shown in the photograph on wikimedia commons is actually a small part of a much larger mosaic as this tiny picture of the surviving portion of the mosaic illustrates.
The unswept floor a mosaic sosus unswept floor one of the few mosaics master we do know the name of is sosus of pergamos famous for his work the unswept floor which inspired later copies.
Doves drinking from a bowl.
It is now kept at the musei vaticani in rome.
Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented.
The mosaic was found in 1833 during construction work in the vineyard of achille lupi near the bastione di sangallo porta ardeatina see a rome art.