@wittspat.bsky.social
Specialist in Roman mosaics, with particular interests in iconography and antiquarian illustrations; also hedgehogs in any medium. Author. Membership Secretary asprom.org (posting personally).
@wittspat.bsky.socialGood to know he's on display, albeit not with his mosaicy friends. Why has he been banished? Or has he gone up in the world?
@wittspat.bsky.socialSending best wishes for a full and speedy recovery. Sounds awful.
@wittspat.bsky.socialPaywalls?
@wittspat.bsky.socialWonderful early photograph of the Shell mosaic at Verulamium before lifting.
#MosaicMonday
@wittspat.bsky.socialI'm rather fond of Bacchus. Is he currently on display?
@wittspat.bsky.socialWhere are they from?
@wittspat.bsky.socialFor this #MosaicMonday, a strip of guilloche looking like mosaic but actually painted. This is the piece I mentioned in the recent post about mosaicists/painters. In Winchester City Museum.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
@wittspat.bsky.social@wittspat.bsky.socialOne of my favourites. Note the vivid orange crustacean claws neatly folded on top of his head.
@wittspat.bsky.socialAlways good to see a detail highlighted. They're so often overlooked but they often play an important role in arguments identifying 'groups' of mosaicists. (I don't get involved in those ...!)
@wittspat.bsky.socialThese are a real treat. Winter, in particular, is worth a zoom: she looks so cold and tiny on her handsome boar. The seasonal identity of Spring and Winter is reinforced by their animals - they traditionally represent these seasons.
#MosaicMonday
@wittspat.bsky.socialSpine-tingling!
@wittspat.bsky.socialAnd what are bound to be local variations, and ? travelling craftsmen: does their rate change according to where they are? Endless food for thought.
@wittspat.bsky.socialAh, yes!
@wittspat.bsky.socialDo you have a close-up pic of this detail, Anthony?
@postboxmap.bsky.socialReposted by @wittspat.bsky.socialLovely Fenland scenery. We don't have this one on PostboxMap yet if you'd like to add it: postboxmap.co.uk
@wittspat.bsky.socialBut no sheep ...
@wittspat.bsky.socialThe second one looks to me as if he's holding a pesky Cupid in the crook of his left arm?
@wittspat.bsky.socialThe thing that is absent, and definitely worth craving, is a mosaic over that ...
@enniusredloeb.bsky.socialReposted by @wittspat.bsky.socialPresenting the saturday night camel chorus line!
BL Cotton Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.39r
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