"Opus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of discs, squares, and other geometrical forms of colored marbles surrounded by bands or borders of a smaller scale, were similar in design to some of the mosaics shown in our plates. This work is known as Opus Alexandrinum and is familiar from the pavements of St. Mark's and the church of Santa ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration - Vol 1, No. 9 1895 • Various
... b. about 1214, at or near Ilchester; became a friar of the Franciscan Order; studied natural philosophy and wrote, besides other works, the "Opus Majus" (described as "at once the 'Encyclopaedia' and the 'Organon' of the 13th ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
... Veterum scriptorum, etc. Amplissima Collectio, ed. E. Martene, iv. Rerum Leodiensim. Opus Adriani de Veteri Busco, p. 1343. The writer acknowledges that ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
... "Opus aur. et inexplicabilis bonitatis et continentiae, Conformitatum scilicet vitae Beati Fr[a]. ad vit[a] D[i]. [n]ri Jesu x[p]i. Mediolani, in edibus Zanoti ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 • Various
... proceeds to say,—"Habet in templi sui meditullio merito suspiciendum spectaculum mirae architecturae contextum, e cujus abside si quis lapillum dejecerit, nunquam a puncto designato ultra citrave dimovebitur instar laternae vitreae in sublime erectum: vitream arcem merito dixeris, opus sane venustum et elegans. Urbem praeterea insigniter ornat aquaeductus ad milliaris semissem, ingenti impensa et opera arcuatim suppositis fornicibus longo ductu protensus, cujus artificii ope civitas alluitur et rigatur. Denique si moenibus conclusa foret, quis vetet civitatem ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman
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