1 ago 316 ano - EARLY CHRISTIAN MOSAICS

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Mosaics, otherwise known as opus tesellatum, were made with small squares
~ 0.5 and 1.5 cm in size
Materials: marble, tile, glass, smalto (glass paste), pottery, stone, and even shells
Floor mosaics demonstrate that the church before and immediately after 313 CE adhered to the late antique tradition of placing religious pictures in pavements.
In the earliest group of Aquileia mosaics (c. 300 CE) objects and animals symbolize the Good Shepherd, while the later group (second decade of 4th century) contains scenes from the story of Jonah, symbolic animals, such as the deer and the lamb, and a representation of the bread and the wine.
Later pictures of this character were banished from floors, and simpler and more general symbols took their place

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