Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 232
A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the marble and porphyry units of the earlier works. It appears to have been first used in the spiral flutings of the gospel or Easter column. This brilliant form of Alexandrine work, whatever its origin, became espe¬ cially common in Southern Italy, and was practised there and… … Fig. 213. Mosaic Details, Pulpit iist San Lorenzo Fuori. in Sicily, and in those of San Paolo fuori and St. John Lateran at Rome (thirteenth century) . Rome became the center of an important school of marmorarii and of a great industry in marble mosaic, and its artists traveled far to execute…
Decoration and ornament -- History · Architecture -- Details -- History
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
