A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 236
did not matter, as it was hidden bythe ^■old ; over tl\is inetal-e«);ited slab a skin of colorless {jflass wjis fused, so iOs to pro-tect the metal leaf from injury or tarnish, and then the slab wjvs broken up into cubes,the \j/ri(poi xp^f^^oi of liyzantine writers. J. II. Middleton. in Kncyc.… … Fig*. 149. S. Lorenzo. Mosaics of Facade. The use of mosaic on the exterior walls was soon discontinued, butwas revived after some centuries, and with greater splendor, in thefacjades of St. Marks, the cathedrals of Orvieto and Spoleto, andother churches. In S. Maria in Trastevere we have the best…
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