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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Amazing ancient Roman mosaic floor at Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy, depicts mythical creatures and characters from Greek mythology. Imagine the cost to put that in!
gathering sufficient materials would be job enough. Think of the steps in actual creation; the "big picture" to be conveyed, working drawings of segments, continuity. Task makes a feller's head hurt!
Probably not much different than the normal practice for masons and carpenters in medieval times assuming they were itinerant and not captive. Place to sleep, meals, wine and a few dinars per week to tide over the worker or family between jobs. If exceptionally skilled back in Roman times, might become a house employee and would be loaned out to other wealthy patrons as needed for a sum negotiated by their employer, that or it might have been a captured or purchased slave in which case whatever the owner deemed appropriate for their labor, in rare cases could lead to freedom.
Imagine the talent to assemble a fresco like that. Not in this day and age when art is some blast of color with no real theme other than what the "artist?" says it is.
I see one human being riding a 'mythical creature' that has a very nice ass.
ReplyDeletegathering sufficient materials would be job enough. Think of the steps in actual creation; the "big picture" to be conveyed, working drawings of segments, continuity. Task makes a feller's head hurt!
ReplyDeleteThey like big butts and they cannot lie.
ReplyDeleteFat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round.
DeleteProbably not much different than the normal practice for masons and carpenters in medieval times assuming they were itinerant and not captive. Place to sleep, meals, wine and a few dinars per week to tide over the worker or family between jobs. If exceptionally skilled back in Roman times, might become a house employee and would be loaned out to other wealthy patrons as needed for a sum negotiated by their employer, that or it might have been a captured or purchased slave in which case whatever the owner deemed appropriate for their labor, in rare cases could lead to freedom.
ReplyDeleteImagine the talent to assemble a fresco like that. Not in this day and age when art is some blast of color with no real theme other than what the "artist?" says it is.
ReplyDeleteNot fond of the color scheme. A little drab for my taste. Makes me wonder if a few thousand years can mute the hues? Other than that, I’d walk on it.
ReplyDeleteIf you have to ask the cost, you can't afford it.
ReplyDeleteThose slaves didn't mind doing all that back-breaking work. It beats being tossed into the Coliseum!
Lost art in tile work, preserved thankfully.
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