The Great Palace Mosaics Museum is a mosaic museum located in Arasta Pazar in Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul.
The museum building was built on the remains of the Grand Palace’s (Buchaleon Palace) “peristil” (columned yard with an open space in the middle) section covered with mosaics, where the Blue Mosque was built upon.
The mosaics of other parts of the peristil were also brought to the museum building from their original locations.
With a surface area of 872 square meters, this mosaic is one of the largest and diverse landscape depictions that survived until today from the late antique age.
The surviving mosaic pieces contain over 90 different themes described using 150 human and animal figures. Nature-oriented paintings deal with things like open-air shepherd life and the courage of the working peasants and hunters.
The surviving mosaic pieces contain over 90 different themes described using 150 human and animal figures. Nature-oriented paintings deal with things like open-air shepherd life and the courage of the working peasants and hunters.
The peristil where the mosaics are built on was a part of the Grand Palace built between the years 450 and 650, upon which the Blue Mosque Bazaar was built.
The peristil was built about the same axis with these constructions in order to be compatible with Hagia Sophia and Hagia Irene from the important structures of the period.
The peristil was built about the same axis with these constructions in order to be compatible with Hagia Sophia and Hagia Irene from the important structures of the period.
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