The Alexander Mosaic anche the House of the Faun (Pompeii VI, 12, 1-8). Geometry proportions and Art of Composition

This text analyzes the celebrated Alexander Mosaic, found in the House of the Faun in Pompeii starting from the premise that it may hide the traces of a compositional process based on rules that built its origin, the Ground Zero of any work of art as such. A painstaking process of calculation and precision based on regulators, even surprising symmetries, and aesthetic precision in the placement of figures that projects the represented scene in a well-defined, memorable, self-sufficient and “representational” form. Finally the text analyses the relationship between mosaic and the composition process of the House.