Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 365
the inventors of the enamels used by themselvesand by the Romans afterwards under the name of musivum—from whence the word mosaic is derived. The Italianscalled these enamels smalto or smalts. 3+6 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Nearly all the remains of antique mosaic that have beenpreserved to our days have… … Fiq. 286.—Roman Mosaic, from Woodchcster. came to Italy to execute mosaics. To this artist isascribed the celebrated mosaic of the doves perched on therim of a basin—Caiitharos—one of which is drinking fromthe water in the vessel. This mosaic is now in the Capitolat Rome, and came originally from…
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