Lions in Ancient Mosaic Art – Cyprus, El Jem, Israel, Libya, Naples, Pella, Pompeii, Sicily, Tunis, Venice

Lion on mosaic – san marco – venice, italy – Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista Meus II – Daisuke Ido

Byzantine mosaic gold lion – Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo – Sicilia – ari kokomosaico

Byzanatine mosaic gold lions – Sicilia, Italy – ari kokomosaico

roman mosaic, bardo museum, tunis – al-’urdun

Roman Mosaic Lions – Hamat, Israel – dgrushko

Bardo Museum – Tunis, Tunisia – gaeththomas79

Roman Mosaic Pompeii 1st century CE – mharrsch

Photographed at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Makonnen male lion at Brookfield Zoo,Il.USA – Jerry Scot

Lion Mosaic – carye1
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Washington, DC From the Ancient Greeks

Lion Mosaic imperez5

Lion Hunt, Mosaic (Detail) – inner3rflow
Close up of Mosaic depicting a Lion Hunt, located in Pella, the Ancient Capital of Macedonia

Lions attacking a wild boar mosaic – Museum at El Jem, Tunsia - WildFocus Images

Lion Mosaic – sbisson
Getty Villa, Santa Monica

Mosaic Lion – Jem-Museum-Mosiac- WildFocus Images
The centre section of the Procession of Dionysus, showing Dionysus astride a savage lion, while handing out wine to a Satyr. Museum in El Jem, Tunisia; Landscape

lion mosaic-El Jem-Museum-Tunisia – WildFocus Images

mosaic lion – bardo museum – sallycat101

Lleó, Mosaic de la Casa de Liber Pater, Museu de Sàbrata – Sebastia Giralt
Lion, Mosaic from the House of Liber Pater (detail), Roman Museum of Sabratha, Libya.

Mosaic lion detail – bardo museum – zacwoolfitt

Qasr el Lebya, – Lion Antiquite Tardive
Lion, Byzantine mosaic of the Eastern Basilica, A.D. 539-540, Qasr Libya.

Syrian Mosaic floor fragment 6th century CE – mharrsch
los angeles county museum of art

Villa Sileen, mosaic lion – Libya, Africa – h_savill

Eroding Lion – Cyprus – einarbrochjohnsen

mosaic man and lion – bardo museum – sallycat101

Mosaics in the stairway – british museum, london – mianakenobi

lion mosaic – istanbul,turkey – sh.ona

Mosaic with a donkey nursing lion cubs – CurlyMer
“This example of foster-mothering with different species would not have been a success; the donkey’s milk would not have been rich enough for the young carnivores, who would have become progressively weaker unless some other nourishment was found for them. The experiment could have been a staged event in an arena or a wild animal farm. The sponsor of the cross-fostering probably had it depicted, and others would have wanted copies of the memorable scene.” – from here..

Detail of a mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii « Mosaic Art Source

Basilica San Marco at night – Venice, Italy

Basilica San Marco, originally uploaded by KittyCate.

“When thinking about Saint Mark’s Basilica, the first images that come to the minds of many people are those of the mosaics and their golden backgrounds. More than 8000 square metres of mosaic cover the walls, vaults and cupolas of the Basilica. Essentially Byzantine in its architecture, the Basilica finds in the mosaics its natural integrating element. The mosaic decorations were developed through some 8 centuries of the Basilica’s history.

They represent stories from the Bible (Old and New Testaments), allegorical figures, events in the lives of Christ, the Virgin Mary, Saint Mark and other saints. The mosaics, with their warm colours, particularly gold, decorate the ample spaces of the Basilica, from 28 metres wide up to 21 metres high. As in Middle-Eastern churches, the interaction of the decoration with a dim, but ever changing light, according to the time of day, creates a range of evocative and intense effects.

In the Basilica’s mosaics can be found the most significant evidence of Venice’s history, the ambitions, faith, languages and trends characterizing the evolution of its art. From its Greek-Byzantine origins to the local artistic expressions and the skills to represent and interpret other outside influences, up to the modern, quite difficult art of preservation and restoration of these precious and complicated works.”

San Marco at dawn virtual tour

Mosaic Art Source – Venice, Italy mosaic photo archive