Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 48
STONES OF VENICE. 39 walls with marble we are not restricted to vertical andhorizontal jointing, and that the more we use our freedomin departing from this, the more purely decorative andnon-constructional does our work become. An exampleof this kind of work is shown in Fig. 19, being the… … Fig. 19. arches, to receive the marble slabs. The spandril shownin Fig. 19 has a central disc of green serpentine; thedark portions of the leaf-like ornament outside it are ingrey marble ; the dentil-band forming the larger circle isin a coarse, sugary marble, believed to be from Greece ;the…
Marble · Decoration and ornament · Marble industry and trade
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