Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 145
mples of red marble inlaid with blue glass and mother-of-pearl are seen in the ruined sanctuary of the mosque of El-M;lridilny. This is the specially characteristic mosaic of Cairo, and it willbe at once recognized as distinct from the mosaics of Europe.It is made of natural marbles and… … FIG. 29.—MOSAIC PAVEMENT (j^th). (South Kensington Muteum.) plaster bed, and not inlet, like the Opus Alexandrinum, into amarble matrix. These are the salient points of the Saracenicmosaic; and the minuteness and delicacy of the tesserae, theintricacy of the designs, and the lustre of the…
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