Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 28
fundamental principles of design which firstsuggested themselves as being characteristic of the mate-rial employed, were lost sight of as mechanical methodsof execution became elaborated. (42,) The Opus Sectile of the Romans was appliedmore generally in pavements than elsewhere. Mosaic work of… … Christian era. The Romans bor-rowed the art from the Greeks, who had previously derivedit perhaps from a Persian source. Fig. 1 shows a specimen 20 MARBLE DECORATION, of Roman Sectile, in which the pattern betrays a decidedlyOriental origin. Towards the end of the third century,Roman art began to…
Marble · Decoration and ornament · Marble industry and trade
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