A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 559
rnto the almost synchronous church of S. Vitaleat Ravenna, which attbrds an admimble ensembleof Byzantine mosaics of tiie epoch, though theyare slightly affected by Italian influence. Goldis more freely used than in the earlier time ofGalla Placidia, ami altogether the effect w;vsmore sumptuous.… … Phocis, S. Marks in Venice, and the Sicilianchurches. Those of S. Lukes (eleventh cen-tury) offer a splendid decorative whole. Thefigures are less majestic than those of the sixthcentury at Ravenna, but the attitudes andcompositions are good, and there is still dis-cernible a flavour of ancient…
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