The Unswept Floor

A mosaic from hadrian s villa now in the capitoline museums depicts a group of doves on a round bowl.

The unswept floor.

Across a white background is an even scattering of debris. The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. Shadow which architect described the accomplishments of the roman builders in his ten books of architecture. By sosos of pergamon and here by the.

A wish bone a claw some fruit various discarded limbs of sea creatures the remains of a fish davidson s analysis illuminates further what we can see and should see on the piece. Design by karina mcleod. Details of koko mosaico. The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds.

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. Luas asmr recommended for you. International visiting artist residency dunedin public art gallery dunedin school of art new zealand 2016. Davidson writes of that cover as a mosaic art called the unswept floor made by the most famous mosaicists sosos.

As described by pliny it is a floor mosaic which depicted the leftovers of a meal on a floor. Which technique was used to make the mosaic the unswept floor fig. In many respects this table top made by arianna gallo of koko mosaico is an unrelated trompe d oeil of ordinary stuff accumulated on a coffee table. But the floor is not really the.

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. This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food. Feng shui it brings financial prosperity success and luck money magnet listen 10 minutes a day. 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.

Doves drinking from a bowl. Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented. The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c. 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.