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... Mosaics . Floor mosaics . Few categories of Roman art show more surviving examples than that of mosaic pave- ments . Opus tessellatum , made of tesserae ( " cubes " ) regularly disposed in geometric designs , and opus sectile , in which ...
... Mosaics . Floor mosaics . Few categories of Roman art show more surviving examples than that of mosaic pave- ments . Opus tessellatum , made of tesserae ( " cubes " ) regularly disposed in geometric designs , and opus sectile , in which ...
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Subjects of mosaic pictures Vault mosaics Figure 83 : The attack on Ai , from the Joshua Roll ( Josh . 7 : 3-5 ) ... mosaics , running from the early 2nd to the 6th century , is that unearthed , mainly in private houses , at Antioch on the ...
Subjects of mosaic pictures Vault mosaics Figure 83 : The attack on Ai , from the Joshua Roll ( Josh . 7 : 3-5 ) ... mosaics , running from the early 2nd to the 6th century , is that unearthed , mainly in private houses , at Antioch on the ...
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... mosaics in S. Apollinare Nuovo contrast marked- ly with those on the walls below , which depict processions of male and female saints moving toward Christ and the Virgin at the eastern end of the building . These mosaic processions were ...
... mosaics in S. Apollinare Nuovo contrast marked- ly with those on the walls below , which depict processions of male and female saints moving toward Christ and the Virgin at the eastern end of the building . These mosaic processions were ...
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