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Fragmento de un pavimento de mosaico con una personificación de Ktísis

500–550, with modern restoration
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301
Las personificaciones de conceptos abstractos son frecuentes en el arte tardorromano y bizantino. Esta mujer enjoyada que sostiene una vara de medir es Ktísis, la personificación del acto de donación generosa o fundación, identificada mediante una inscripción griega restaurada. Junto a ella, un hombre hace ofrenda de una cornucopia y otra inscripción en griego reza BUENOS (el texto completo tal vez era BUENOS DESEOS). El fragmento, hecho de teselas de mármol y de vidrio coloreado, es típico de los excepcionales mosaicos creados en el mundo bizantino en el siglo VI.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Fragmento de un pavimento de mosaico con una personificación de Ktísis
  • Fecha: ca. 500–550; restauración moderna
  • Cultura: Bizantino
  • Material: Mármol, vidrio
  • Dimensiones: 151,1 x 199,7 x 2,5 cm
  • Crédito: Fondo Harris Brisbane Dick y Fondo Fletcher, 1998 (1998.69); compra, donación de Lila Acheson Wallace, Fondo Dodge y Fondo Rogers, 1999 (1999.99)
  • Número de inventario: 1999.99
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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