. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . s, whom they stripped of theirwing feathers, which they wore as oraaments.{Hirt. Mythologisches Bilderbuch, \t. 203.) Museum, Gr. and R. (Moutreio;). Literally,a temple of the Muses. The term was after-wards applied to an establishment founded byPtolemy I., called Soter, at Alexandria inEgypt, in which
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . s, whom they stripped of theirwing feathers, which they wore as oraaments.{Hirt. Mythologisches Bilderbuch, \t. 203.) Museum, Gr. and R. (Moutreio;). Literally,a temple of the Muses. The term was after-wards applied to an establishment founded byPtolemy I., called Soter, at Alexandria inEgypt, in which scholars and literary men weremaintained at the public expense. In a villa, itwas a grotto or retreat to which people retiredfor meditation. Musivum (opus), R.{^ovailov). This termwas used by the Romansto denote a mosaic ofsmall cubes of colouredglass or enamel, in con-tradistinction to LlTHO-STROTUM (), whichwas a pavement madeof real stones and mar-bles of different colours ;but in a more extendedsense, the term Musivumdenotes any kind ofmosaic. Figs. 474 and475 show examples ofvarious kinds. Fig. 476is a mosaic forming a()i:iis musivum. border. Muslin, originally es-teemed for the beauty with which gold waswoven in its warp, took its name from the cityof MousuU in Turkey in Fia
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