Abundance & The Good Life:
The Late-Antique Inheritance (cat. 1-11)
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Mosaic with Hunting SceneStone tesserae Late-Antique, 5th century AD Width: 62 3/4 inches (159.5 cm.) |
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Scenes of men hunting animals or animals hunting one another, quite popular with pagans and Christians, were stock images in Late Antiquity and part of the repertoire of the mosaicist as well as of artists in other media. Hunting scenes evoked the rich bounty of the earth while illustrating a favorite pastime of wealthy landowners. The three scenes of men hunting animals on our chariot fitting (cat. 1) are likely to have been scaled down from larger compositions such as this monumental floor mosaic of a leopard attacking a boar.
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