After today’s lecture, I did a little digging on the Nile mosaics from Praeneste(modern Palestrina, Italy). The most famous, for both its size and its quality, is the Barberini mosaic, pictured here. It is so called because it was removed from the complex in the 17th century by the Barberini family (and has suffered subsequently!). … Continue reading scenes of the Nile in Italy
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