Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 30
o apavement in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore atRome, executed in the fourth century. The small trian-gular pieces of inlay measure not more than a quarterof an inch across. (45.) Considerable ingenuity was displayed in the pro-duction of geometrical patterns in this kind of marbleinlay,… … Fig. 3. executed in the twelfth century. Here the small centralstars only are in red. In the form and disposition ofthis pattern, as in others of the same period, an Orientalinfluence is traceable. More elaborate and not less pleas-ing, is the pattern in Fig. 4, which is taken from theBaptistery at…
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