6/2/2023 0 Comments Mosaic paintingThe “direct dial” technique practiced here since ancient times was called Roman. One of the leading centers of mosaic art was the Roman Empire. Deeply mosaic called art historians all the applied art of ancient Egyptian civilization. An early example of the technique of inlay, or received the name in antiquity mosaic technique opus sectile, later developed in the technique of Florentine mosaic can be considered an artifact, tentatively called “Standard of Ur” (2600-2400 BC).Īccording to archaeological excavations, mosaic spatial, mainly utilitarian, ornaments were widely used in Ancient Greece. The most frequently used geometric motifs: rhombus, triangle. The image was formed from the ends of these cones, which were usually painted red, black, and white. The mosaic there was made of burnt clay sticks-cones (“zigzags”) 8-10 cm long and 1.8 cm in diameter, which were laid on the clay solution. The history of the mosaic dates back to the 2nd half of the IV millennium BC – the time when the buildings of palaces and temples of the first Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia were dated. It is no accident that people decorated temple buildings with the very first mosaics. The word “mosaico” literally translated from Latin – opus, “musivum” means – work dedicated to muses. It’s not for nothing that Italian Renaissance painter Dominic Ghirlandaio said: “Painting is drawing, and painting, designed for centuries, is a mosaic”. Today mosaic is widely used in interior decoration, however, we sometimes do not notice the best examples of this delightful art, hurrying to do our business … And sometimes you should look around or just look under your feet. Mosaic is the art of composing an artistic image with a set of any colored material, known for thousands of years.
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