Sketches, graphic and descriptive, &c. for a history of the decorative painting applied to English architecture during the middle ages (1847)
Blackburne, Edward Lushington, 1803-1888 author · London : John Williams & Co. · leaf 73
f reference. ‘This is shown particularly in the inscriptive legends attached to the figures of the three Apostles, St. James, St. John, and St. Jude, which decorate the tomb of Bishop Branscomb, at Exeter,and to those of Pity, Mercy, and Charity, on the wall of Gower's Monument in St. Mary… … appears to have been derived from, and originally an imitation of, the mosaic and other coloured pavements of the Continent, which, known as the “ Pavimenti Gracanici” of Pliny, and the “Opus Grecum” of the Byzantine period, were early introduced by continental artists into this country '. 1 . :…
Mural painting and decoration, Medieval -- England -- History · Mural painting and decoration, English -- History
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