Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 235
A HISTORY OF ORNAJNIENT pressing all avoidable projections and recessings. INIar-ble incrustations and pavements were used with evengreater splendor than in Rome, and all vaults coveredwith superb mosaics, or, when means were lacking forthe more splendid adornment, with pictures in fresco… … FiG. 217. Impost Cap, S. Vitale. ing process by which they lost all their strong reliefs,high lights and deep shadows. This process had begunas far back as 300 a.d. in the Palace of Diocletian atSpalato (Fig. 216), in another part of which one also 208 BYZANTINE ORNAMENT observes arches carried…
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