A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 578
aword, that they have no atmospheric perspective.As instances, one may note the little Pala-tium of Theodorie, or the tiny Portus Classis in the mosaics of S. Apojlinare Nuovo at Ra-venna ; here the .saints and virgins, the palace090 MURAL PAINTING and tlie gallery, all stand in a frieze of… … MuEAL Painting: 14th Century; One Bay of NaveOf S. An ASTASIA AT Verona. nature was left out of these mosaics, and wasreplaced by the play of light upon the unevensurfiioe made by the cubes or tesserse, the deco-rative arrangement of lines, the use of purelyornamental forms, and the subtile…
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