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Pax Romana Art
The Empire in Mosaic
The Roman Empire · AD 117
1.843 kr2.636 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Map
- Era: Principate
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Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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The Empire in MosaicFramed print · Black · 32x24″
1.843 kr
2.636 krSave 793 kr
The Roman Empire · AD 117
An Empire Set in Stone
Mosaic was one of the great Roman arts. Floors of villas, baths and townhouses from Britain to Syria were laid with tesserae, small cubes of stone and glass, set in mortar to make patterns, gods, hunting scenes and sea creatures. Sea scenes with dolphins and fish were especially popular, and the twisted rope border appears on floors across the empire.
The Romans also made public maps. Pliny the Elder says that Marcus Agrippa, the general and friend of Augustus, planned a map of the whole world, which was completed after his death and displayed in a portico in Rome. A later mosaic map of the Holy Land survives in a sixth-century church at Madaba in Jordan. This design imagines what a map of the empire might have looked like on a Roman floor, showing it at its height under Trajan, from Britain and Spain to Dacia, Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The piece
Every shape is built from tiles: the coastlines step in tiny squares, the rivers run as dark blue lines through the cream, and the colors of the empire shift slightly from tile to tile, as real stone does. The eye goes first to the blue of the sea, then to the leaping dolphins, and finally to the small gold star of Rome.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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