Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 226
reached by flights of steep stairs. The decoration ofthese simple forms was often very rich, especially of thepulpits and altar frontals (Fig. 212). It consisted ofinlaid patterns of opus Alexandrinum combined withdisks and guilloches of sectile, in principle like the floor-mosaics, but finer in… … Fig. 212. Ara Coeli, Rome, A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the marble and porphyry units of the earher works. Itappears to have been first used in the spiral flutings ofthe gospel or Easter column. This brilliant form ofAlexandrine work, whatever its origin, became espe-cially common in Southern Italy, and…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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