logo
Log in
EN
IT
FR
DE
ES
logo
EN
IT
FR
DE
ES
artsupp banner
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima
Head in wood
Etruscan mirror
Sarcophagus lid
Slab of a Volterra urn
Crater with columns
Kylix
Fragment of relief with Brahmanical ascetics
Monaco
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
False shelf (Nāgadanta) figured
Curvilinear relief fragment with scenes from the life of the Buddha
Standing Buddha statue
Head of the Buddha
Parthenopaios crater
Oinochoe con Hermes e Nike
Oinochoe with Hermes and Nike (detail)
Lebes gamikos
Crater of the Ghiottoni
Crater with representation of the myth of Orestes
Fragment of Euphronius
Shield umbone
Pair of earrings and ring
Crosses in gold foil
Sword grip
Solid of Emperor Phocas
Pair of fibulae
Fibbia Gota
Signet ring
Head of Jupiter
Floor
Lovere cup
Floor A
Floor B
Painted altar
Trivulzio Diatreta Cup
Patera (dish) from Parabiago
Heracles at rest
Portrait (possibly Maximian)
Theatrical mask from Caesarea Maritima
Nymph with peplum
Volute oil lamp with figured disc
Epigraph of Pontius Pilate
Lucky fisherman statue
Treasury of Caesarea Maritima

Floor

Anonymous

Displayed in:

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Corso Magenta, 15, Milan

Closed now: open at 10:00

Verified profile

The pavement fragment was recovered during the investigations carried out around the middle of the last century near Corso Europa, an area formerly occupied by the grandiose complex of public baths erected by the will of Emperor Maximian Herculean in the eastern sector of the city. The findings of the last two centuries have brought to light sections of the wall foundations, floor, sculptural and architectural fragments, and guaranteed a planimetric reconstruction of the building derived directly from the models developed in the Rome of the 1st century AD, which then spread widely in most of the lands. dell'Impero: an annular path developed over several rooms arranged symmetrically around a central axis, through rooms for bathrooms, changing rooms, saunas and hot vapors, as well as a large courtyard used as a gym. The entire floor surface was decorated with a pattern of continuous intertwined black meanders on a white background, with two-tone braids in the resulting spaces within a rectangular field on a black background; in the corner areas were four panels with double frame and pelte, with busts of the personifications of the seasons in garlanded roundels (the one of spring is preserved in the Ambrosiana Library). The mosaic probably belonged to an unheated room in the spa complex, perhaps an apodyterium (changing room) measuring approximately 30 x 15 m. The petrographic analyzes have made it possible to trace the lithic materials used for the mosaic tiles to limestone from the Brescia and Veronese area, exploited in the city - in general in various Lombard, Piedmontese and Emilian territorial sectors - since the Augustan age (remember the pavement of the forum composed of white limestone slabs from Valpolicella, now visible in the basement of the Ambrosiana Library).
Read more

Details

Title: Floor

Author: Anonymous

Date: III-IV sec. d.C

Technique: Mosaic

Displayed in: Civic Archaeological Museum of Milan

Exhibitions

about the artist

All ongoing and upcoming exhibitions where there are works by

Other works

at Milan

Related Searches

See more