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Roman mosaics of Langres, Dionysos.

Roman mosaics at the Museum of Langres

A travel and design guide to mosaics. For the past 5 years, I have been visiting Roman mosaics in France and other countries. I reproduced many of their designs and…
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Happy New Year

Happy New Year Y’all ! Bringing you this lovely 4th century Greek mosaic from Halicarnassus, Turkey, with my best wishes of “Health, Life (Longevity), Joy, Peace, Contentment (Good Cheer), Hope”.…
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Black swimmer mosaic

The black swimmer mosaic (mosaique au nageur noir) was discovered in August 1991, at the intersection of rue Général-Perrier with rue Auguste in Nimes, France. Black swimmer mosaic, Musée archéologique…
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Carlos Maratta - The Rape of Europa CA 1680

Mosaic model : How I built the Lullingstone Europa Mosaic – Part I.

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…
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Squares and Octagons on a Daphne mosaic.

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…
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Mosaic model of the week – Lugdunum 01

The big geometric mosaic at Lugdunum One of the many gorgeous Roman mosaics displayed at the Lugdunum museum in Lyon is a huge geometric one. Its center, encased by a…
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Volubilis mosaics – Part Deux

In 2017, I started to travel to see mosaic I had been dreaming of for many years. Twice a year I would go back to Europe and then go to…
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