. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. strictly: Mosaic means pictures andpatterns composed of pieces of stone, pottery, pearl, and glass, thelast being coloured or underlaid with metal-foil. There are two principal classes of such Mosaic. The opus tesse-latum is composed of small pieces, mostly cubes, held together bybeing inlaid in a kind of cement. The opus sedile is composed oflittle slabs, varying in shape according to the object to be repre-sented. Mosaic work is very ancient; and is
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. strictly: Mosaic means pictures andpatterns composed of pieces of stone, pottery, pearl, and glass, thelast being coloured or underlaid with metal-foil. There are two principal classes of such Mosaic. The opus tesse-latum is composed of small pieces, mostly cubes, held together bybeing inlaid in a kind of cement. The opus sedile is composed oflittle slabs, varying in shape according to the object to be repre-sented. Mosaic work is very ancient; and is mentioned as early asthe Book of Esther. A large number of Roman mosaic pavements, inopus tesselatum, have been preserved to us. Early Christian art alsodecorated walls and piers with geometrical mosaic (opus Grecanicum),numerous examples of which are to be found in Ravenna, Palermo,Venice, and elsewhere. All kinds of mosaic have been practised inItaly down to the present day, less, it is true, for the decoration ofwalls and pavements than for Ornaments, Pictures, Table-tops, &c. KEPEATING OKNAMENT. 279 % >sN. 1 ^ f p = U/ a c , 7 7 C = ca z n utz 1 ILi= \ \y^ u .1 l!= = / R-^ ni 70-5 J il -1 t^c 1 =!l m n II 1 31 ^ r zc,_ = : ^1 nil
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