Mosaique de Palestrine
(Nilmosaik von Palestrina)
Es handelt sich hierbei um einen originalen Kupferstich von Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) aus dem Jahr 1750.
English description:A rare, decorative and very detailed engraving of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina*. This genuine copper engraving was published by Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) / Benard in 1750. It measures 33 x 44 cm (plate size) and is in good condition. Derives from Diderot's work "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres."* The Palestrina Mosaic or Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean. The mosaic was part of a Classical sanctuary-grotto in Palestrina, a town east of Ancient Rome, in central Italy. It has a width of 5.85 metres and a height of 4.31 metres and provides a glimpse into the Roman fascination with ancient Egyptian exoticism in the 1st century BC, both as an early manifestation of the role of Egypt in the Roman imagination and an example of the genre of "Nilotic landscape", with a long iconographic history in Egypt and the Aegean. (Wikipedia)
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