The Unswept Floor

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.

The unswept floor. Design by karina mcleod. The unswept floor poster publication with text by curator lucy hammonds. International visiting artist residency dunedin public art gallery dunedin school of art new zealand 2016. By sosos of pergamon and here by 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. 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. The unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. 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. A mosaic from hadrian s villa now in the capitoline museums depicts a group of doves on a round bowl. Which technique was used to make the mosaic the unswept floor fig. 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.

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. Sosos laid at pergamon what is called the asarotos oikos or unswept room because on the pavement was represented. Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184. This depicts the floor of a room covered with the remains of a feast including fish fruit and other fragments of food.

Across a white background is an even scattering of debris. Swept definition simple past tense and past participle of sweep1. Shadow which architect described the accomplishments of the roman builders in his ten books of architecture. Feng shui it brings financial prosperity success and luck money magnet listen 10 minutes a day.

But the floor is not really the. Details of koko mosaico. Luas asmr recommended for you. The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c.