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Stone Pavement


Stone Pavement
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Copyright: Krzysztof Morswin (morswinek1) (430)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-03-06
Categories: Daily Life, Architecture, Artwork
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Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-04-27 16:24
Viewed: 533
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Polish]
Fine stone pavement on the one of Cordoba's squares.
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Hi.
I like your picture, the pattern in the stones are realy good but i have posted a idé in the workshop abt your picture.

Regards

Anders

Very good! Your photos are interesting and very nice, and my country is represented very well.

Ooh, I love the design that you've captured here. However it's insulting to call this stone pavement. This is actually an art form called a pebble mosaic.

Mosaics as we know them (as designs created from small cudes of stone or glass) were developed during the Hellenistic period of Greek art. Historians consider the Hellenistic age to have lasted from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC (or BCE) to the defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII (this is the Cleopatra that everyone knows about) at Actium in 31 BC. However mosaics weren't unknown before this time. Pebble mosaics have been found dating to the 8th century BC, and some scholars argue that they originated even earlier in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). Figural pebble mosaics (that is, pebble mosaics with people in the designs) started in the late 5th century BC, and the finest examples can be seen at Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia and boyhood home of Alexander the Great.

Thank you for posting this beautiful image. Great work!

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