A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 558
e must turnto the almost synchronous church of S. Vitaleat Kivenna, whicli affords an admirable eiiseinblp.of Byzantine mosaics of the epoch, though theyare slightly atiected by Italian influence. Goldis more freely used than in the earlier time ofG-alla Placidia, and altogether the effect wasmore… … Mosaic Floor: Monastery Church at Arn-STEiN, Rhenish Prussia. Phocis, S. Marks in Venice, and the Sicilianchurches. Tliose of S. Lukes (eleventh cen-tury) offer a splendid decorative whole. Thefigures are less majestic than those of the si.Kthcentury at Ravenna, but the attitudes andcompositions…
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