. 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 . Fig. 503. Alexandrinum opus. Fig. 503. Musivum opus. 1 Opus Musivum. Mosaic. (See MusivuM.) Opus Pectineum (comb-wrought). Woven workimitating end >roidery. Opus Phrygianum, R. Fine embroidery.(See Okpurey.) Opus Plumarium (feather-stitch). Embroidery 2^,6 WORDS USED IN of which the stitches overlap
. 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 . Fig. 503. Alexandrinum opus. Fig. 503. Musivum opus. 1 Opus Musivum. Mosaic. (See MusivuM.) Opus Pectineum (comb-wrought). Woven workimitating end >roidery. Opus Phrygianum, R. Fine embroidery.(See Okpurey.) Opus Plumarium (feather-stitch). Embroidery 2^,6 WORDS USED IN of which the stitches overlap one another likethe feathers of a construction, with an ornamental surface re-semliling the meshes of a net. Opus Spicatum, R. Hening-bone masonry. Fig. 506. Pseudisodomum opus. Opus Pseud-iso-domum, Gr. (lit. quasi-equalstructure). A Greek method of building inwhich the courses are (l) parallel and unequal,
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