Posts by Frédéric LECUT

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, How to Mosaic

angels erotes, bull, crete, design, drawing, eros, europa, greek mythology, lullingstone, model, mosaic, mosaique, Ocean, phoenicia, romaine, roman, Villa, zeus

Making the mosaic model of the Lullingstone mosaic In this article, I am going through the various stages of designing the actual mosaic model for a reverse method mosaic. I…

watercolor of a mosaic found at Cieutat, displyed at the Elusa museum

Mosaic Trip – July 2022

4 August 2022

Discovery, History & Archeology, Mosaics, Resources, Trips & Visits

aix, aquitaine, Aquitania, armagnac, eauze, elusa, gallo-romaine, gers, lectoure, manosque, mosaic, mosaic trip, mosaique, musee, museum, novempopulonia, oceanos, Provence, romaine, roman, roman mosaic, roman villa, seviac, travel, trip, Villa, visit, voyage

A few times a year I take a mosaic trip. There’s of course plenty to see around the Roman Empire. Roman Empire in 117 AD But for the past 3…

Merry Summer Solstice to you’all

21 June 2022

aestas, britain, corn, ear wheat, ete, harvest, Hispania, horae, horai, libya, libye, saison, season, Seville, sickle, Spain, summer, Tunisia, wheat

To celebrate Summer Solstice I curated a few mosaic personifications of Summer ! Because agriculture was the main source of wealth in Rome, the 4 seasons were a favourite theme…

The Gallo-Roman mosaic of Doulaincourt

13 June 2022

Discovery, History & Archeology, References, Resources

archaeology, archeologie, chemin de fer, France, gallo-romaine, Gallo-roman, Grand Est, Haute Marne, mosaique, railroad, romaine, roman mosaic, roman villa

A Gallo_Roman mosaic discovered by a railroad company employees In 1887, during construction work on a railway line, the remains of a villa and a gallo-roman mosaic were discovered in…

Work in Process, May 2022

16 May 2022

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, History & Archeology, Works in Process

arkades, bull, catacomb, cerf, clay, crete, europa, fish, genainville, goddess, hippocampus, lullingstone, marinatos, nereid, Ocean, oceanos, plate, Rome, rosace, Saint Romain en Gal, shell fish, shellfish, stag, val d'oise, Venus, warrior, zeus

Since I’ve moved back to the Holy land of France about 8 month ago, the only mosaics of mine I shared in this blog are my little Ukrainian flag mosaics.…

Squares and Octagons on a Daphne mosaic.

16 May 2022

Design & Services, History & Archeology, Resources, Unclassified

3D, Antakya, Antioch, catalog, cube, daphne, design, geometry, GIMP, Inkscape, library, lingua franca, model, modular, mosaique, Octagon, octagone, pattern, solomon knot, template, templates, trompe l'oeil, Turkey

I am reverting this week to publishing the geometric mosaic models I have been drawing for the past year ! A geometric mosaic medallion from Daphne The mosaic model of…

Week 18 mosaic model : A deer stomping a snake.

2 May 2022

allegory, animal, bite, Byzantine, cerf, Christ, christianity, deer, drawing, figurative, Hagia Sophia, kill, libya, libye, model, mosaic, mosaique, olbia, serpent, snake, stag, stomp, symbol, theodorias, Turkey

From the Eastern Church of Theodorias The mosaic drawing of this week 18 (May 2 to May 8) is my drawing of a mosaic showing Deer (or a stag) stomping…

Standardization in Roman mosaics

25 April 2022

History & Archeology, Resources, Unclassified

blueprints, border, catalog, collection, decoration, decorator, drawings, figurative, fleurons, flower, fresco, geometric, macedonia, mosaics, mosaique, norm, painter, painting, pebble, pella, Pompeii, roman, standard, standardization, templates, wall painting, wave

The standardization of Roman mosaics I publish every week a model of a Roman or Byzantine mosaic, A few weeks ago I published a drawing of the 6th square medallion…

Week 16 mosaic model : Lugdunum 06

19 April 2022

design, drawing, evil, flower, fourviere, geometric, GIMP, Lugdunum, Lyon, medallion, model, module, mosaic, mosaique, romaine, roman, stripes, stripped, ukraine

The 6th medallion of the great Lugdunum mosaic The mosaic model of this week 16 (April 18 to 24) is my drawing of the 6th medallion of the great geometric…

Week 15 mosaic model : Ducks, Fish & Lotus

11 April 2022