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Unswept floor mosaic vatican. Pliny mentions this trompe l oeil optical illusion in his natural history xxxvi 184. The unswept floor is a theme from classical mosaics such as one to be found in the vatican. First what do we know about the mosaic. This is a video showing the unswept floor mosaic on exhibit at the vatican museum.
Kunstformen der natur 1904 by ernst haeckel the unswept floor is a now lost mosaic by the 2nd century bc mosaicist sosus of pergamon. Asaroton or asarotos oikos unswept room is a great term i discovered regarding ancient roman and hellenistic mosaic work the word is greek but it was a common roman genre in which the floor of the triclinium or dining room would be decorated with food scraps seemingly cast onto the ground from the very dining tables at which guests would be seated. As described by pliny it is a floor mosaic which depicted the leftovers of a meal on a floor. A detail of the unswept floor mosaic at the vatican museum in a previous post about ancient roman dining habits tossing bones shells and scraps on the floor and shared a mosaic that records this practice in exquisite detail.
The decorative theme is that known as asàrotos òikos or the unswept floor created in the second century b c. There is a even a specific greek term for this asaroton.
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