Reposted by 🍉💋Nikki LaPorte🦜🫖

These fragments from a Roman villa in Spain are not from a mosaic but from a fresco. If you look closely you’ll see a grid of lines, many following the contour of the figures, much as tesserae do on mosaics. This trompe-l’oeil technique simulates mosaics. 1/ 🏺
1st-2nd c. Museo de Málaga
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