A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 579
, in aword, that they liave no atmosjdieric ])erspective.As instances, one may note the little Ialu-tium of Theodoric, or the tiny Iortus Classisin the mosaics of S. Apollinare Nuovo at Ra-venna ; here the saints and virgins, the palace MURAL PAINTINGand the giilleiy, all stand in a frieze of… … nature was left out of these mosaics, and wasreplaced by the i)lay of light upon the unevensurface made by the cubes or tesserie, the deco-rative arrangement of lines, the use of jiurelyornamental forms, and the subtile variations oftone in masses of cubes, which when seen froma distance appeared…
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