Archaeologists Unveil Ancient Church Site...lovely mosaics

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We had another thread on this topic, and yes, the mosaics are quite beautiful, aren't they?

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the mosaics remind me of the bardo museum in tunis which has one of the finest exhibits of mosaics - stunning is the only way i can describe it. while the museum buiding is quite simple, the mosaics are a true feast for the eyes.
i'm glad i spent a few dollars buying postcards from a streetvendor; we still pull the pictures out every now and then to admire the artwork. hbg


...BARDO MUSEUM - TUNIS...

Oh, thank you, Hamburger!

heehee....I do mosaics meself, in a very 'umble way...adore them!

dlowan - post up some of your mosaics!

Er.....no working camera (I mean I can't work it, it prolly works) and I have no scanner.


Such is life.


I may get a scanner soon, though.


I kinda can't see the point of photies, meself, so very much, since I am going to die.


Odd, I know, but there it is.


I use OP's.

You're going to die?

What are OPs?

Well, yes, I believe I am mortal and shall die.


Lol!


Why that affects how I feel about taking lots of photos and such is a little complex, but I would try and explainn, were anyone interested.



OP's are "other people's", ie I get copies of photos I really like that others have taken.


It comes from a smoking term....do you smoke? Only OP's...meaning you bum (or cadge) other peolle's cigarettes.

The mosaics are beautiful. I'm excited about seeing more pictures of this amazing discovery as it unfolds.

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colorbook : go to ...BARDO MOSAICS...and you should be happy seeing plenty of mosaics. enjoy ! hbg

Thank you hamburger…I have been enjoying them

When I was in high school, the large swimming pool we used was completely done in mosaics...it was beautifully made and quite a sight to see…we always referred to it as Cleopatra's Bath.

This mosaic is in a Harvard Business School building where my housemate works.





Other neat stuff at the website, including a curse tablet.... Mosaics

Wowser!

I had no idea that it was a 4th century mosaic. I thought it was new. It's set in an atrium and can be looked down upon up to the fifth (I think) floor. It's set in a square of water.

Dlowan--


I share your feeling about freeze-dried moments.

Off topic hypothesis: Can the little darlings who are immortalized in photographs and scrapbooks ever give up their ossified childhoods?

My favorite mosaic, for sentimental reasons, but primarily because of the descriptive, is this 12th century facade mosaic at Santa Maria Trastevere in Rome - said to be the madonna surrounded by five wise and five foolish virgins....







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ossobuco : thanks for posting the picture. mrs h and i were recently looking at the pictures we took in rome some years ago - we only had four days. we thought the smaller churches, such as Santa Maria Trastevere were really more beautiful and interesting than the Sistine Chapel - and certainly not as overrun with tourists talking LOUDLY !
what intrigued us most in the Sistine Chapel was a visit to the catacombs . it wasn't part of our guided tour; we "hitched a ride" with one of the brothers who went into the catacombs - who seemed to be officially closed . he opened up one of the roped off entrances and we followed right behind. he closed the entrance again after we had entered - not a word was spoken . we had our own "unguided" tour. hbg

Oh, yea, I've heard of that, I think St. Pete is supposed to be buried down there. I am sort of vatican-phobic, though I love Bernini's work on the eliptical piazza/colonnade. I have slogged my way up through the unpleasantly hot and stuffy narrow staircase in an interminably slow line to the Sistine, which was under controversial modification at the time. Not to pass on Michelangelo, but my own interest is in the small churches, such as San Carlo Borromeo and Sant'Andrea del Quirinale, and several other more rustic ones, but I could go on and on and would go into a major thread hijack.

I've seen lovely mosaic work at Ostia Antica, but have not been to Pompeii or Erculaneum - man, to have money and time, I could spend them both well...

S. M. in Trastevere had gorgeous interior mosaics, done by a specific family if I remember correctly.

Hamburger, if you feel like starting a thread and showing your old trip to Rome photos, some of us would enjoy seeing them..

these are beautiful


I stayed near the sea in Kefalonia a few years ago and just next door in an olive grove was the mosaic floor of a roman villa - it was so easy to imagine them with their boats and olives and some vines ...