THE STREET MUSICIANS
Dioskourides of Samos
Villa of Cicero
Pompeii
c. 100 B.C.
Museo Nazionale, Naples
Mosaic has an important decorative role in the Roman household as well as in public buildings. This floor mosaic of street musicians, apparently based on a well-known third century B.C. painting, was made by a Greek artist, Dioskourides of Samos.
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