Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 124
n body, these figures of saints without physical and withoutpsychical character, were at last to be distinguished only by thenames inscribed at their sides. The value of the mosaics was re-duced to the general effect of their colors as seen in the dim in-terior of the Byzantine churches, the… … Fig. 51.—The Empress Theodora with the Ladies of her Court in S. Vitale. Mosaic in that Church. In Ravenna the difference between the mosaics of S. Vitale andthe others of this debased style is so slight that it is difficult toclass them chronologically. The incrusted decorations in the Basil-ica…
Art, Medieval
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