238 BORDERS AND CRESTINGS a second cussion, may be considered in this place although they type- are constructed in a different way. They belong to a type of design already referred to in Chapter III, in which masses of colour of various forms are pro- jected in regular order from each margin of the… … FIG. 264. meandering line becomes the principal feature of the design, as will be seen in the two examples given, which are from the borders of wall-paintings of ninth- century date in the lower church of San Clemente, Rome. The indented margins of the lower design suggest as probable a mosaic…
Decoration and ornament
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