Romanorum
In Olympia, the "pronaos" of the classical temple (465 BC) has a floor decorated with stream stones, a kind of "Venetian terrace
It is attributed to the first Roman period. The Greek method of cement floors with lime was perfected in Italy. With the evolution of these "patient works" over the centuries, it was realized that they would never be "the painting for eternity", although some inlays of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence are so refined that they almost interpret the pictorial order. The floor compositions of the 9th century acquired a decorative character; the correct placement of these beautiful floors.
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The “rustic” mosaic, in use from the 16th to the 17th century, was also formed on reliefs of gravel and had its predecessors in the classical decoration of nymphaea and fountains. The combination of colored stones to create ornaments seems timeless; Grandinetti, as always in her style, studies the past in depth, appropriates the historical achievements of the master floor layers and re-proposes them in an evolutionary sense. The installation of the Grandinetti floor presented here is “unusual” for the value it adds to any type of interior, whether minimalist or antique, sober or modern.