. Glass. s,and when we hear that glass was made at Thessalonica,and again that one of the gates of the capital was namedafter the adjacent glass-works, it is of this branch of theart that we must first think.^ Byzantine artists travelledto Cordova on the one hand, and to Damascus on theother, to work in mosaic for Mohammedan masters; wefind them, too, at Rome, at Ravenna, and at doubt these 7nusivi took with them, at first at least,the materials with which they built up their pictures. For the use of coloured glass in the windows ofchurches, we may probably find a similar origin. InJ
. Glass. s,and when we hear that glass was made at Thessalonica,and again that one of the gates of the capital was namedafter the adjacent glass-works, it is of this branch of theart that we must first think.^ Byzantine artists travelledto Cordova on the one hand, and to Damascus on theother, to work in mosaic for Mohammedan masters; wefind them, too, at Rome, at Ravenna, and at doubt these 7nusivi took with them, at first at least,the materials with which they built up their pictures. For the use of coloured glass in the windows ofchurches, we may probably find a similar origin. InJustinians great church glass was not used for mosaicsonly; there were windows filled with stained glass, someof which may even now be in place. In the seventhcentury we hear of Greek workmen summoned to Francefor such work, just as from Merovingian France, as Bede 1 In the Theodosian code, however, we find, among the craftsmen who arefreed from personal taxes, Vitrearii, vasa vitrea PLATE XI.
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