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![[Picture: 38. Byzantine marble floor-mosaics.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/038-byzantine-marble-floor-mosaic/038-byzantine-marble-floor-mosaic-q75-367x500.jpg "[Picture: 38. Byzantine marble floor-mosaics.]")
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Figs. 1 – 7 and 12. Marble floors in St. MArk’s in Venice (Hessemer, Arabische und altchristliche Bauverzierungen). Figs. 8 – 11 and 13 – 15. Marble floors in St. Sophia’s in Constantinople (Salzenberg, Altchristliche Baudenkmale in Konstantinopel).
A collection of fifteen designs taken from mosaic floors, featuring geometric designs with soem floral embellishments or ornaments and halves of two separate circles. The printing is not really good enough to get a much larger size, unfortunately.
