Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 369
later Roman addition to the w^ork. Another antique mosaic picture in the Museum atNaples is the seated figure of the tragic poet found in ahouse at Pompeii. Fountains, columns, dados, wall panels, as well as floor 350 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. decorations, were common objects of mosaic treatmentwith the… … Fig. 289.—Head in Mosaic, from the Battle of Issus. floors, while the wall spaces only received ornamentalcompositions. It appears from this that the Romans never thoroughlyunderstood the true value of mosaic as a means of archi-tectural decoration, and it was not until about the fourthcentury of…
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