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Title: Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Architecture Architectural drawing
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Printed by F. J. Drake & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 99. FROM THE CHURCH Fig. 100. FROM THE CHURCHOF SAN VITALB AT RAVENNA. OF SAN VITALE AT RAVENNA. 105. The walls of the interior were cased with costlymarble, and in later times were ornamented with mo-saics, representing either figures or arabesques, com-posed of very small precious stones or glass dice, andsubsequently with frescoes: both the latter kinds of or-namentation were affected on a dark-blue, but after-wards always on gold ground. Owing to this extensive 188 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE employment of mosaics, a traditional style, both for de-sign and coloring, was formed for these figurative rep-resentations, which may be called the mosaic style: itwas, as has been shown, employed in the Roman ba-silicas, and had great influence over the plastic art oflater times. In these mosaics the arabesques are ofslender, intertwining patterns, whilst the representationsof figures are stiff and conventional.
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