I just wanted to express how much I absolutely love and adore ancient Roman/Greek mosaic artwork. Just incredibly mesmerizing. You can just feel the pure warmth and ancient aquatic energy emanating from it. The geometric almost psychedelic swirling that makes you dizzy to look at, beautiful Dionysus in the center with interwoven ribbons encircling the outside. Just think of the absolute colossal engineering that it would take to build this tile by tiny colored tile across a large temple sized floor with mathematical and geometric precision. When admiring this work, I’m filled with a wild and ancient sense of mystery and wonder. I don’t say this to exaggerate, but there seems to be something truly esoteric and magical about pieces like these. If anyone else likes Roman/Greek mosaics, I might make this into a dedicated board to post every now and then. If not at least enjoy this delight for once and cherish it as it graces your eyes.
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>>18644524>>18644565Very beautiful. Thanks for sharing this OP. Made me interested to look into it some more. What sites did you find these from?
>>18644567I’m glad you enjoyed. The originals are all over Google images or whatever search engine you use. The funny thing is that most of the originals are old pics, or the original mosaic is in bad physical condition so I’m trying to digitally restore, enhance, and touch up the mosaics to imagine what they looked like when they were first built. Will be posting many more in the thread it’ll just take some time over the next few days to upload finish editing and upload them all.
>>18644524which one is greek and which one is roman?
>>18644524did you put the original image into an ai to make the face look like it was made in the renaissance? why?
>>18644578i see you did it with this one too. did you want to make the people depicted yellow haired or what?
>>18644586All the great mosaics are mostly Roman. They were the true masters and pioneers of mosaics. They basically took the original Greek tradition of mosaics and raised it to an entire new level. Attached is an extremely legendary Greek mosaic “The Stag Hunt” (325 BCE), probably one of the most famous Greek mosaics. Some other Greek mosaics if you ever look through them just aren’t on the level of the Roman mosaics but still beautiful,
>>18644607Huh? Yes I’m using AI to assist with restoration. Most of the original mosaics aren’t in best condition and damaged or badly weathered.The original Dionysos hair is literally orange and you can barely make out the weathered/damaged faces in second mosaic. Idk why you think this is some gotcha, i already clearly stated these are restorations pieces to imagine what they’d look like new. If you’re not interested just move along.
>>18644524Villa Romana at Desenzano del Garda, Italy. (350 A.D)
>>18644628‘Orpheus and the Animals’ with Four Seasons in the Corners, Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Vienne, France (175 A.D)
>>18644638‘The Rape of Proserpina’ and Busts of the Seasons, Rome (~150 AD)
>>18644656Persephone is still just Dionysus fyiThey just divide them according to sex role but its still an identity of a man turned into a female character of its own
>>18644656Section of Amisos Mosaic, Turkey (~550 A.D)
>>18644682Interesting. Didn’t know that, been sort of learning a bit of the lore as I’ve gone down the mosaic art rabbit hole.
>>18644697‘Plato’s Academy’, Pompeii (~100 BCE)
>>18644708‘The Drinking Contest of Herakles and Dionysos’ Antioch, Turkey (~130 AD)
I've bought some cheap mosaic tiles a week ago and plan to start making Roman-looking mosaics in the future. I have no experience in the matter but hopefully I wont fail or abandon it. I would like my mosaics to represent specific events though, not just be geometric shapes, so something like this>>18644578
>>18644739Sounds fun. You’ll have to update if this board is still around.
>>18644759‘Ulysses and the Sirens’, Tunisia (268 AD)
>>18644770‘Mosaic of the seasons’, Seville, Spain (~300 AD)
>>18644780Possible - Bignor Villa, West Sussex England (~350 AD)
>>18644790‘Venus’ West Sussex, England (~350 AD)
>>18644834‘Ganymede & The Eagle’ Bangor Villa Sussex (~350AD)
>>18644697Vgh
>>18644524‘Medusa’ at Diana Theatre, Alexandria Egypt (~150 AD) - This took me almost 12 hours to restore, very painful but was too beautiful to pass up…the geometry is too complex with such large chunks of damage in original mosaic missing I had to calculate the cascading feather pattern. Probably not gonna do one like this again if it’s missing that much in the future.
>>18645743‘Ktisis floor’ Daphne (~450 AD)
>>18645866‘Mosaic of the Four Season’ Toledo, Spain (~250 ACE)
>>18644617Stop. You dont know shit about the medium they used.
>>18645743>This took me almost 12 hours to restorehow does doing nothing take that long
>>18645921>>18645990You’re right. Think I’m done here, take care bros.
>>18646116I really enjoyed this threadPlease dont lose hope OP
>>18644611>censored dick on a mosaicThanks for the precaution, if a /his/ user sees a guy's dick in any context he'll jizz in his pants instantly
>>18646116>AI-using faggot malds away
>>18644524not the biggest fan of roman mosaics, but i respect the work they put in, and i also admire your fascination towards themhow do you feel about byzantine mosaics? are they worth talking about, or are they not as good?
>>18645881this one is probably my favorite out of allit has more color
Tibetan Buddhism insults Islam and their holy text predicts Kalki avatar will lead Tibetans in a victory to exterminate Muslimshttps://academia.edu/42069182/_Islam_in_the_K%C4%81lacakra_Tantra_JIABS_1998https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/download/8878/2785/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalachakrahttp://trimondi.de/EN/deba03.htmlhttps://wikiislam.net/wiki/Kalachakra_Tantrahttps://fpmt.org/mandala/archivTibetans also constantly attack and assault Hui, Salar Turkic and Dongxiang Muslims and demolish their mosques.http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/23/world/fg-muslims23http://rfa.org/english/news/china/mosque-10082012100424.htmlhttp://rfa.org/english/news/china/mosque-10082012100424.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080705164954/http://www.crisisstates.com/download/wp/wp68.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080404073742/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/tibet.china.ap/http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/23/china.clash.reut/index.htmlhttps://economist.com/analects/2012/prophets Muhammad, Moses and Jesus are all subjected to abuse in that Tibetan text, look at the articles.Uyghur women were also infamous for temporary marriage prostitution to non-Muslim men in the 19th-20th centuries including Han, Russians, Hindus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_women_under_Qing_ruleThey are not patriarchal warriors unlike Yezidis who would kill an Arab for looking at his women.Evola only praised Uyghurs because he thought they were racial kin to Europeans, being part Caucasian with some having blonde hair. Otherwise he would have ignore them like the multitude of Mongoloid Muslim ethnicities of China like the Salar Turks.Evola did not foresee or predict the Chechen wars at all while he claimed, based on his racial fantasies, that an ethnicity of racial dayuth (Uyghurs) whose women were infamous for pr0stituting to non-Muslim men, & lost every rebellion they fought, would defeat Communism. roflmao
>>18646203The Uyghur Sufi Naqshbandi master Afaq Khoja also betrayed his own people to the Buddhist Dzungar Mongols inviting them to invade and rape his own people in 1678 and take over the Yarkent Khanate in the Tarim Basin. He is worshipped by half of Uyghur Sufis as a Wali of Allah.front page western media article about Uyghur dissident, is about an anti-China Uyghur Muslim female "dissident" mentioning about her sexual fantasies with non-Muslim Han boys in school and eventually marrying one. https://nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/uyghur-muslims-china.htmlThe Uyghur Rebiya Kadeer's father was with the Uyghur Communist Ehmetjan Qasim who revolted with Soviet Stalinist support against the non-Communist Republic of China, while Stalin was mass deporting and murdering Chechen and Ingush and Crimean Tatar Muslims.
Tibetan Buddhism insults Islam & their holy text predicts Kalki avatar will lead Tibetans in a victory to exterminate Muslims.https://academia.edu/42069182/_Islam_in_the_K%C4%81lacakra_Tantra_JIABS_1998https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/jiabs/article/download/8878/2785/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalachakrahttp://trimondi.de/EN/deba03.htmlhttps://wikiislam.net/wiki/Kalachakra_Tantrahttps://fpmt.org/mandala/archivTibetans also constantly attack, kill & assault Hui, Salar Turkic & Dongxiang Muslims & demolish their mosques.http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/23/world/fg-muslims23http://rfa.org/english/news/china/mosque-10082012100424.htmlhttp://rfa.org/english/news/china/mosque-10082012100424.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080705164954/http://www.crisisstates.com/download/wp/wp68.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080404073742/http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/tibet.china.ap/http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/23/china.clash.reut/index.htmlhttps://economist.com/analects/2012/Do you condemn this Islamophobia? Why has CAIR not spoke about these Islamophobic texts and violence?Why have you not spoke about these Islamophobic assaults?prophets Muhammad, Moses and Jesus are all subjected to insults in that Tibetan text, read the articles.
what the fuck?
