The richness of medium in themosaics is amply compensated for by Gauguin's richness of foliage forms and floral designs.
In this levelling process all those qualities which raise painting above simple mosaics are lost.
The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles.
Florentine mosaics are the choicest in all the world.
Those in the transepts are stiff figures of saints; and in the one over the altar is the great figure of the Redeemer, such as is usually met with in the mosaics of the Italian basilicas.
Over the doors of the church and of the great refectory there are mosaics representing, if I remember rightly, saints and holy persons.
To this date belong restorations of the original mosaicsin the dome, as evidenced by inscriptions.
An author whose writings are like mosaics must have borrowed from many quarries.
By music we reach those special states of consciousness which, being without form, cannot be shaped with the mosaics of the vocabulary.
The carvings are rich and handsome, but the mosaics are out of place in its Gothic character.
In the museum are some of the ancient sculptures and mosaicsdiscovered in Algeria, together with medals and Algerian money.
A comparison of the paintings and mosaics of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries shows the rapid decline of all art qualities.
Its twelve altars are attributed to Michael Angelo (were probably designed by him), and the mosaicsin the dome are by Cimabue.
It is renowned for its superb altar, its valuable mosaics and the tombs of Russian grand-dukes.
In the destruction that would almost certainly result there would perish mosaicsand sculptures which were in their present places when Vienna was still a Swabian village, and Berlin had yet to be founded on the plain above the Spree.
Yet these old mosaics are found in churches which are not of this style, although situated at one time in the Eastern Empire.
They are of eight to ten tones of colour, and are put into position on the spot, being joined together by a mastic cement which resembles that used by Andrea Tafi in restoring the mosaics in the Baptistery at Florence.
Accustomed only to the smooth, pictorial mosaics of thin plates of glass put together in the workshop, he had to teach the Messrs.
The high exterior railings are gone: the organ removed to its proper position and the organ screen taken away, so that dome and choir are connected for congregational purposes: the system of decoration by mosaics well advanced.
But what I cared most to see were the mosaics in the choir, executed in the time of Justinian, and as fresh and beautiful as on the day they were made.
The floor is paved with rich marbles; the cupola is covered with mosaics of the time of the empress; and in the arch over the door is a fine representation of the Good Shepherd.
The mosaics and the exquisite arabesques on the roof of the choir, taken together, are certainly unequaled by any other early church decoration I have seen; and they are as interesting as they are beautiful.
There, in one of the earliest Christian churches in existence, are the fine mosaics of the Emperor Justinian and Theodora, the handsome courtesan whom he raised to the dignity and luxury of an empress on his throne in Constantinople.
Inlaid mosaics are those in which coloured designs are inserted in spaces cut in a solid ground or basis, such as the modern Florentine mosaic, which consists of thin veneers of precious coloured stones set in slabs of marble.
The building contained one hundred marble pillars, and was also adorned with sculptures and mosaics sent from Ravenna by Pope Adrian I.
The most important of these represents St. Luke, clad in tunic and toga, seated under just such a triumphal arch as is frequently to be met with in the Roman Mosaics of the 5th and 6th centuries.
The mosaics in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which are composed of rough pebbles, may, however, be even more ancient than the works of Sosos in Pergamon.
The interior with its glorious and most striking Italian mosaics evidences the western influences that have spread over Russia in latter years.
The floor is of marble inlaid; walls, piers and vaults are covered with the most beautiful mosaics in prevailing colours of blue and gold, saints in four tiers varied by landscapes and lilies.
They admired the mosaics of the Chiesa di Monte Reale; and fed the pheasants, at that beautiful royal villa, well styled "the Favourite.
He mused over the antique tombs of some of the departed knights; and admired the rich mosaics in that splendid church, dedicated to Saint John; than which the traveller may voyage long, and meet nothing worthier his notice.
There are altars made of their skulls, and chandeliers made of their thigh bones; frescoes of their spines; mosaics of their teeth and dried muscles; cozy corners of their femurs and pelves and tibiae.
The interest of this building consists in the mosaics of its cupola.
Glass for mosaics was also largely made and exported.
St Sofia when erected by Justinian had vaults covered with mosaics and immense windows filled with plates of glass fitted into pierced marble frames; some of the plates, 7 to 8 in.
At first he only realized the great space, the four long rows of closely set columns, and the great triumphal arch which framed the mosaics of the apse, where Constantine stood in the clouds offering his Basilica to the Saviour and St. Peter.
Only the echoes of his own footsteps reverberated uncannily from the worn mosaics of the floor.
The lamp in the centre of the chapel threw a dim radiance upon the bowed form of Tristan, whose sword crossed the mosaics of the floor.
The red and blue robes of the painted figures on the wall glowed about her like blood and azure, while the moonlight laid lemon colored splashes upon the varied mosaics of the floor.
Good new room to the R, containing excellent Roman mosaics from French North Africa.
But, though artistically fine, Flandrin’s frescoes are not nearly so effective as the original mosaics in Theodoric’s basilica.
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