. The builders of Florence . ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^Z^^^^^^^^^^^^r- v i. clly^rcive^covedo dell FACADE OF SANTA MARIA NOVELLA 217 panel, or, better still, in a panel centre, as at the Badia di Fiesoleor San Miniato—that we find the inlay of black on white grow fine,begin to imitate natural forms, and even at last to admit those chipsand fragments of colour which lead up to the splendours of truemosaic. Thus that decorative system which began in the supply ofemphasis, and continued in the repetition of structural lines, closed,as it ought, in the free field of ornament it had so fairly gained. Returning
. The builders of Florence . ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^Z^^^^^^^^^^^^r- v i. clly^rcive^covedo dell FACADE OF SANTA MARIA NOVELLA 217 panel, or, better still, in a panel centre, as at the Badia di Fiesoleor San Miniato—that we find the inlay of black on white grow fine,begin to imitate natural forms, and even at last to admit those chipsand fragments of colour which lead up to the splendours of truemosaic. Thus that decorative system which began in the supply ofemphasis, and continued in the repetition of structural lines, closed,as it ought, in the free field of ornament it had so fairly gained. Returning then, once more, to our proper subject in the facadeof Santa Maria Novella, we find an initial difficulty which must bedisposed of ere we can apply what we have learned to this particularcase of superficial decoration. For all is not surface here by anymeans. To say nothing, meanwhile, of the edges, where the lowerfacade shows plainly its full depth of wall, there are the arches of theavelli, shadowed cayes carved as it were out of its substance, and thedo
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