Decadence or Hedonism? The Abject as Sublime in the Asàrotos òikos Mosaic Floor from the Vatican

IF 0.2 3区 艺术学 0 ART
Nava Sevilla-Sadeh
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The depictions in the so-called Asàrotos òikos (“unswept floor”) mosaic from the Vatican have remained puzzling, although it seems clear that waste is portrayed (fig. 1). The images depicted in the main parts of the mosaic have been recognized as remnants of food (such as cherries, grapes, leaves, nutshells, lobster claws, fish skeletons, oysters, chicken bones; fig. 2), and even a tiny mouse appears among them. Another part of themosaic features Dionysian tragicmasks (fig. 3).Mosaics belonging to this genre have been interpreted as a symbolic representation of the Roman elite. However, the proximity of reversal images in the mosaic
颓废还是享乐?梵蒂冈Asàrotos òikos马赛克地板上的崇高与卑贱
来自梵蒂冈的所谓Asàrotos òikos(“未扫过的地板”)马赛克的描绘仍然令人费解,尽管看起来很明显,它描绘了废物(图1)。马赛克主要部分描绘的图像被认为是食物的残留物(如樱桃、葡萄、树叶、坚果壳、龙虾爪、鱼骨、牡蛎、鸡骨头;图2),甚至一只小老鼠也出现在它们中间。马赛克的另一部分特征是酒神悲剧面具(图3)。属于这种类型的马赛克被解释为罗马精英的象征性代表。然而,在马赛克的接近反转图像
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