This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. Portuguese to English
  3. History

pavimento bícromo

English translation: floor (decorated) with a bichrome (opus sectile design)

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Portuguese term or phrase:pavimento bícromo
English translation:floor (decorated) with a bichrome (opus sectile design)
Entered by: Tania Pires

09:18 Nov 16, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / Roman Villae
Portuguese term or phrase: pavimento bícromo
'O melhor exemplo no território português da utilização deste recurso em meio rural encontra-se no bem conhecido caso do ninfeu da villa de XXX, onde a combinação da água, do pavimento bícromo em opus sectile e do repertório escultórico decerto criava uma atmosfera impressionante.'

Thanks in advance for your help!
Tania Pires
Portugal
Local time: 19:50
floor (decorated) with a bichrome (opus sectile design)
Explanation:
'Bichrome' is the key. The term is used by archeologists and preservationists. The pieces are typically larger than you see in a mosaic.

(How do I know? My husband was a historic preservationist.)

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0393730379
Paloma Pajares-Ayuela - 2001 - ‎Architecture
The shift from opus tessellatum to opus sectile in the isotropic geometric ... of the **"bichrome mosaic"** {opus tessellatum in two counterchanged colors) and, in the ...

https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objecttype/Tile...
Records 1 - 20 of 54 - ... **Late Medieval-post medieval bichrome, glazed ceramic floor** tile AD ... The decorated surface of the tile depicts a floral central design, ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0892361816
The Getty Conservation Institute - 1991 - ‎Art
**design, floor band, bichrome design**, wainscot, colored wash, dado, de facto plaster, undecorated plaster, and absence of plaster [21]. The condition of the ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521002303
Katherine M. D. Dunbabin - 1999 - ‎Art
Polychrome designs frequently use illusionistic three-dimensional motifs, some ... floors, creating the effect of a ceiling design reflected on the floor.9 Excellent ... **Black-and-white (bichrome) ornamental mosaics** also developed in the last ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9774246748
Zahi A. Hawass, ‎Lyla Pinch Brock - 2003 - ‎History
**As there is another, earlier mosaic floor below our mosaic, this would indicate that ... Another example of similar design is provided by a second century CE floor ... On the other hand, our piece fits very well into the bichrome, mostly black and ...**

Selected response from:

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 11:50
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2Opus sectile floor
Margarida Ataide
5bi-coloured opus sectile floor
Nick Taylor
4floor (decorated) with a bichrome (opus sectile design)
Muriel Vasconcellos


  

Answers


8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Opus sectile floor


Explanation:
Sugestão

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 20 minutos (2016-11-16 09:38:50 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Two-color «opus sectile» floor


    https://books.google.fr/books?id=U7Uu_Dq8oY4C&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=two+colour+roman+flooring+%2B+opus+sectile&source=bl&ots=lOUKf3WtBc&sig=
    Reference: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999/1999-04-23.html
Margarida Ataide
France
Local time: 20:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
Notes to answerer
Asker: e o "bícromo"?

Asker: Obrigada!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
2 mins
  -> Thank you, Teresa!
agree  Mario Freitas:
10 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mario!
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
floor (decorated) with a bichrome (opus sectile design)


Explanation:
'Bichrome' is the key. The term is used by archeologists and preservationists. The pieces are typically larger than you see in a mosaic.

(How do I know? My husband was a historic preservationist.)

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0393730379
Paloma Pajares-Ayuela - 2001 - ‎Architecture
The shift from opus tessellatum to opus sectile in the isotropic geometric ... of the **"bichrome mosaic"** {opus tessellatum in two counterchanged colors) and, in the ...

https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/objecttype/Tile...
Records 1 - 20 of 54 - ... **Late Medieval-post medieval bichrome, glazed ceramic floor** tile AD ... The decorated surface of the tile depicts a floral central design, ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0892361816
The Getty Conservation Institute - 1991 - ‎Art
**design, floor band, bichrome design**, wainscot, colored wash, dado, de facto plaster, undecorated plaster, and absence of plaster [21]. The condition of the ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521002303
Katherine M. D. Dunbabin - 1999 - ‎Art
Polychrome designs frequently use illusionistic three-dimensional motifs, some ... floors, creating the effect of a ceiling design reflected on the floor.9 Excellent ... **Black-and-white (bichrome) ornamental mosaics** also developed in the last ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9774246748
Zahi A. Hawass, ‎Lyla Pinch Brock - 2003 - ‎History
**As there is another, earlier mosaic floor below our mosaic, this would indicate that ... Another example of similar design is provided by a second century CE floor ... On the other hand, our piece fits very well into the bichrome, mostly black and ...**



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 11:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 60
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
bi-coloured opus sectile floor


Explanation:
bi-coloured opus sectile floor OR opus sectile follor carried in two colours

Nick Taylor
Local time: 19:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 47
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search