Description:
mosaics and glass paintings, St. Mark's, Venice; manuscript initial

Notes: Both designs are colored in such a way that produces a three-dimensional effect. If you ignore the coloring, however, the designs are, in fact, tessellations of polygons.

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Book:
Racinet, Auguste. Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament: All 120 Plates from "L'Ornement Polychrome," Series II. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1989.
Location:
Plate 50

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