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A stained glass tour in Italy (1913)

Sherrill, Charles Hitchock, 1867- · London, John Lane; New York, The John Lane Company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 65

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been practisedin Santa Sofia and other churches. From his timedown all the ages the records of Rome show thatthe coloured glazing of windows was understood,and was steadily developing as an art. In thecatacombs there have been found fragments ofpainted glass showing the Good Shepherd and… … MOSAICS AT ST. PAULS, ROMEThe quaint drawing of the figures bears striking testimony to how much the mosaicperiod of glass owed to the designers of mosaic. Rome Byzantium, art languished in Italy, and the greatchurch of Santa Sofia became the worlds magnet forartists, and the glories of its glass…

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