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The artist was probably from North Africa and a master in the use of small, polychrome tessera to make the most wonderful, vibrant pictures out of 1cm x 1cm squares of stone and glass.
Details from a floor mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale, at Piazza Armerina, Sicily; probably the finest Roman mosaics still in existance and worth a visit in their own right.
The Villa is late (late 3rd - early 4th Century AD) and probably used as a hunting lodge by Maximianus, Diocletian's co-Emperor. The fine mosaics - and there are room upon room of them; totalling 3,500 sq. metres - have survived because the villa was buried in a mud slide in the 12th Century. It is now a World Heritage site under the protection of UNESCO.
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