The Arts Past and Present: Mosaics - for iPad/Mac/PC
The Arts Past and Present: Mosaics - for iPad/Mac/PC Podcast
1) The Arts Past and Present: Mosaics
A short introduction to this album.
2) Mosaics at Brading Villa
Mosaic Artist Catherine Parkinson goes to visit a Roman Villa, Brading, on the Isle of Wight
3) The Astronomer
The iconography in this mosaic reveals more than meets the eye.
4) The Cockheaded Man
A mosaic like today's political cartoons.
5) Orpheus
Clues that this mosaic was made in a hurry.
6) The Shepherd
A mosaic depicting a castrated shepherd and a nymph
7) Medusa
Catherine Parkinson realises why this mosaic is laid a little crooked.
8) Reading Roman Mosaics
Open University classicist Jessica Hughes talks about the the Brading Villa mosaics and explores some of the issues raised in the video tracks.