I want patterns to be a major part of my project, from looking at images of Rome in particular. I saw just how widespread mosaic patterns where throughout the Roman Empire. I thought they would be only common to certain regions but these geometric patterns where everywhere.
I even found the same ones in holiday photos from when I was younger at Ephesus in Turkey.
However this was originally a ancient greek city it was lived in by Romans during it's life time.
A lot of mosaic makers where Greeks. This is evident in the style similarities and used of borders. It makes sense they would have a huge influence considering they where so close to each other. But that's not all:
The below images are from the book 'Italian pavements patterns in space':
The images here are from an assortment of different books on Roman art and history:
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