This ambo was the work of a certain Laurentius V. Cosma, one of the older members of a celebrated Cosmati family of Roman marble-workers of the thirteenth wor ' century, from whose name the term ' Cosmati ' work, by which this kind of mosaic is sometimes known, is derived. Some of the designs show… … FIG, 132. Greece round the shores of the Mediterranean. It is also found much further afield, for in the thirteenth century a Roman marble-worker was employed to decorate the basement of the shrine of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey with this Cosmati work, the remains of which are still…
Decoration and ornament
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