The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii's patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.
Pompeii's mosaics all survived the Volcano.
mnli hypothesis: Pompeii's mosaics all survived the Volcano. premise: The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii's patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.