Though I've never visited, the Bardo has been cited before as one of the two truly world-class museums on the continent of Africa, the other being the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
@@canelo1728 Both Tunisia and Egypt are nonetheless situated on the continent of Africa, and museums found anywhere in Africa, regardless of any other variables, comprised the scope of my comment.
@@barrymoore4470 And Saudi Arabia, Lebanon are Located in Asia. I wonder if we call them "Asians" and "Asian museums" and put them together in the same category as the Japanese and Chinese and just lump them together. We arent africans. We dont refer ourselves to that. You can say the Maghreb to highlight Morocco, algeria, tunisia and lybia. Thats our term. Not africa. Dont try to associate our history with sub saharans, which we have nothing to do with. Just like you dont go to Lebanon and say this "Asian museum". Not to mention that we are located on the Medditeranean.
@@canelo1728 The purview of my comment was the entire continent of Africa, upon which Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt are sited. I wasn't taking any other variables, such as ethnicity and culture, into consideration.
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The Bardo contains an exceptional collection of mosaics alone worth a trip to Tunisia. At the beautiful American Cemetery of North Africa in Tunis, in the small reception room and office, there is also a beautiful - albeit smaller - mosaic of Neptune similar to the one you show in the Bardo.
It looks like they renovated the Bardo extensively since I was there: it seems there is much more light and better presentation of the artefacts. Nice !
These are spectacular. When I was in Arles, France, last fall and went to Musee de l'Arles Antique, I thought I had seen some spectacular Roman mosaics, but this museum far surpasses it. Thanks Garrett for enlightening me.
I don't know why, but I find mosaics simply enthralling. Maybe it's the combination of the expressiveness of painting combined with the timelessness of stone? Or the underlying, almost subliminal, geometric patterns at their heart? I genuinely wish they'd come back into fashion as architectural decoration.
One tremendous asset mosaic has over painting is that the original colors are preserved much better over time in a mosaic as opposed to most paintings.
we are lucky that the art of so many of our ancestors has survived. from 50,000 year old cave paintings to Egyptian bas-reliefs to Roman mosaics to renaissance frescos. here's to out of the way places!
One of my favorite mosaic motifs I saw when visiting Tunisia was Neptune with crab claws growing out of his bearded head which made him look like something out of the movie The Thing. The ruins at Sbeitla have a bunch of those baptismal baths in situ, each completely covered in mosaics.
I was just at Cyrenaica in Libya earlier this month, had the whole place to myself! Temple of Jupiter was beautiful, seemed like horses lived in the ruins Saw a few mosaics in the town itself, but nothing too crazy
It is humbling to reflect that Apuleius and Augustine conceivably could have seen and trod upon some of these splendid mosaics. The Late Antique Christian mosaics were quite interesting, as I had never before seen reproductions of these specific works, and was unfamiliar with the custom of using mosaics as funerary decorations.
Thanks for this video of art and archaeology I would never see otherwise. On the mosaic with tiles missing where a building in Bethlehem was intended, there is what looks like a scratched outline to guide the workers laying the tiles. Do you suppose it's original?
I've lived in Italy. Though I've never been to Tunisia, I always make it a point to visit Roman ruins and museums in the countries I visit. To me, Leptis Magna, in Libya, is the best Roman city I've ever seen. It's better than Rome and Pompeii put together
WOW! I had never seen these!!!! I wonder if the style and shape of the tomb decorations from 5:14 on influenced Gustav Klimt - if it didn't he would have loved them!
when we watch anthropology and history videos and someone mentions "were the same animal, we have the same brain as they did"....this is kinda proof among other things
Unusual clothing shown 3:50 > 4:30 as a woman wearing a 'modern' style of flared-out skirt on her dress. Does anything like this appear anywhere else . . . ?
So are we just going to ignore the fact that Virgil looks Black in the tile artistry?? Whoever was the artist(s) that put that together made Virgil's skin brown for a reason cuz you can see that they deliberately made him darker than the women next to him
How are mosaics lifted(?). My staff usually looks up stuff on the interweb for me but during a recent aquatic outing on my floating gin-palace they were mistaken for pirates and were turned into dolphins. ps My pet leopard can be seen in funny cat videos on RU-vid but he has been found to be too heavy for robot vacuum cleaners.
I took a mosaic class one time. We did small scale projects, like covering a old, plain ashtray with a mosaic. It’s fun, messy and the art you make is near indestructible.
