Antique Mosaics

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The role of mosaics in Greece it was decorative, something similar to what is now a rug. In the ancient Greece It was an element of luxury, there were not decorated mosaics in all the houses, there were not even in all the palaces. The oldest Mycenaean and Minoan palaces had flagstone floors. From the XNUMXth century BC, small mosaics with few details began to be seen. They were only placed in the main andron room, where the man of the house met with other men to drink and eat. The mosaics found in the city of Olindo were in black and white.

In almost all the places where there are mosaics, you can see the tesserae, marble cubes of different colors with which the mosaics were formed and the borders that surrounded the main motif.

As they were perfected, there began to be more scenes in them, mythological, of daily life, of plays and others. In Delos, the temples were where luxurious mosaics first began to be placed. They were placed in the Temple of Apollo, since the island was dedicated to the god Apollo. In the neighborhood of the Theater is where you can see ruins of outstanding residences where mosaics were found and they began to be called by the figures that had the mosaics, the house of Dionysus, that of the trident, the house of the dolphins, the house of penguins, masks, etc. The mosaics are manifestations of opulence, that is why it is believed that they had their splendor with Philip II, and with Alexander the Great.

The mosaics even today they continue from the ground defying time.


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