Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 121
rent defects of mosaic work. The diligenceand exactness required by this mode of execution had indeed beenof beneficial effect, and the hasty and careless style of the frescosin the catacombs had been entirely avoided; but the inlaying ofsmall cubes of colored glass and stone was no less attended… … Fig. 49.—Mosaic in the Apse of SS. Cosma e Damiano in Rome. and of just relation between the figures and the landscape of thebackground, which, in some slight degree at least, had been main-tained in the mosaic of S. Pudenziana. In later works the figuresstand isolated like statues, the heads are…
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