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 260
oulded in stucco,mostly geometrical, but including also peacocks, swans, eagles, andother symbolic birds. The apse of this church offers a splendid example of the mostcharacteristic wall decoration of the Byzantines. The bishops thronein the centre of the semicircle,and the marblebench of… … Fig. 167. Arch Head, Cattaro. of marbles and porphyries, which has no parallel at Ravenna, butslightly resembles some mural decoration existing at S. Sabina atKome. The materials are porphyry, serpentine, opaque glass, whiteonyx like that from Algiers, burnt clay of various colors, and mother was…
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