Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 136
e iconostasis.Nothing of the older screen remained but the small Roman arcades of the base. Theyreplaced the twelfth century work by panels of wonderfully rich marble, and erected uponoctagonal pedestals, eight columns surmounted by capitals fantastically foliated, and anarchitrave supporting a… … (B) Ambo on South Side of Screen, Salerno THE ICONOSTASIS AND THE ROODLOFT 73 At the same time that Venice was able to afford sumptuous marble for her iconostases,the Orientals, by this time very poor, were constrained to build in wood, the poverty ofthe material being masked by facile paintings.…
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