Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 354
edure is similar to that employed in the manufacture of the gilded glasses of theCatacombs. The preparation of cements is a matter of prime importance, and experienceshows that the most durable mosaics are embedded in the thinnest layer of cement. MOSAICS 329 to ornament vertical and not horizontal… … Fig. 200. Isaiah and Solomon : mosaics of the eleventh century in the Monastery of Daplmi,Attica. {Ranks Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 396. portions of columns. The tones are few and strongly contrasted, theground being usually blue; the reds are furnished by pottery cubes, lava,and ferruginous stone:…
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