Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 111
yzantine S. GeorgeThemosaicsof thedome 72 SALONICA [CH. work of the kind. Architecture even when treated asit is here, and in the wall decoration of Pompeii, in anabstract and conventional way, never rises to a highlevel of ornament: and here it certainly gives a dullnessto the design. It is… … Fig. 17 (from Texier). perspective. Nor do architectural forms lend themselveswell to display of colour, for which the draperies of figuresand the foliage of trees give such splendid opportunitiesin other mosaics at Salonica; and it is to magnificenceof colour that the art of the mosaicist must…
