Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 44
, and that everything might well be second-ary to it. The same principle or feeling is seenin St. Marks where the architecture is quitesimple, the arches and vaulting without mouldings,nothing to interfere with the quiet splendour ofthe gold or blue fields of mosaic varied with simpletypical… … SKeicM crrA«^TonriT€RioR.orDOME.- s.r^ARK^. veNicc decoration as this becomes an essential and Integralpart of the architectural structure and effect. Note the way in which the tesserae are laid (In 23 THE ARCHITECTURAL BASIS the head of the Empress Theodora from St. Vltale at Ravenna, for…
Decoration and ornament
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