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Fragmento de um mosaico com a personificação de Ktisis

500–550, with modern restoration
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301
É comum encontrar personificações de conceitos abstratos na arte romana tardia e bizantina. Esta mulher adornada com joias que segura uma vara de medição é Ktisis, a personificação do ato de fundação ou doação generosa, identificada por uma inscrição grega restaurada. Ao seu lado, um homem faz uma oferenda de uma cornucópia e outra inscrição em grego reza BONS (o texto completo talvez fosse BONS DESEJOS). O fragmento, feito de mármore e téssera (fragmentos de vidro colorido), é típico dos mosaicos excepcionais criados no mundo bizantino do século VI.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Fragmento de um mosaico com a personificação de Ktisis
  • Data: ca. 500–550
  • Cultura: Bizantino
  • Meio: Mármore, vidro
  • Dimensões: 151,1 x 199,7 x 2,5 cm
  • Linha de créditos: Fundo Harris Brisbane Dick e Fundo Fletcher, 1998 (1998.69); compra, doação Lila Acheson Wallace, Fundo Dodge, e Fundo Rogers, 1999
  • Número de acesso: 1999.99
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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