Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 324
Holy Land, with the cities of Bethlehemand Jerusalem (Fig. 128) on a larger scale. Very few earlypavements are preserved; in Italy especially they were some-what contemptuously destroyed to make way for the Cosmatiwork which was popular in the twelfth century. The marble incrustation of the walls… … Fig. 121. — Section of mosaic pave-ment in the cathedral of Parenzo.Sixth centurv. 296 PKTOllIAL ART I he work adorns the wall spare just above the colonnade. K,was more commonly employed for the lower walls of the aislesand of the apse. We may mention in this connection mosaic inscriptions,…
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