Simpson, F. M. (Frederick Moore), 1855-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 231
up of smallcubes of marble of different colours which form delicate patterns.These, in their turn, are framed in by broad bands of whitemarble. The contrast between the small patterns and big slabsis very striking, but the secret of the success ot these floorsis due in a crreat measure to the value… … Fig. 116. which could be sawn into slabs or shaped into minute cubes.Some of the slabs are of great size; in the Church of S. Mariain Cosmedin, one porphyry roundel is nearly 8 feet in diameter.The finest floors of this type in the capital are in the Churchesof S. Maria Maggiore, S. Maria in…
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