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Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mollett, John W. (John William)
Subjects: Art -- Dictionaries Archaeology -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 13. Albe. Alcove. A niche or recess in a room. Aldobrandini, Marriage, R. A celebratedfresco from the gardens of Mecsnas, discoveredat Rome near the church of Santa Maria Mag-giore, whence it was conveyed to the villaAldobrandini, and afterwards sold to the Bor-ghese family. This painting which indisputablydates from the reign of Augustus, consists of agroup of ten figures, representing, according tosome, the marriage of Peleus and Thetis ; andcording to others, that of Manlius and Julia.
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Fig. 14. Point dAIeiifoii. Alencon, Point d. Lace formerly known asPoint de France. It is the only French lace notmade on the pillow, but worked entirely by handwith a fine needle, on a parchment pattern; it iscalled Vilain in the French provinces, and inEngland is known as needle-point. (Fig. 14.) Alerion, Iler. An eagle, in early Her., repre-sented without feet or beak. (See Eagle.) Ale-stake. In the middle ages the roadsideale-house was distinguished by a stake projectingfrom the house, on which some object was hungfor a sign. Alexandrinum (opus), R. A kind of mo.saicemployed especially for the pavement of rooms.The distinctive feature of these mosaics is thatthe lines or figures composing the designs are intwo colours only, the prevailing ones being redand black upon a white ground. A largenumber of mosaics of this description exist atPompeii, which are also called sectilia. Alexikakos (Apollo). Another name of thecelebrated statue generally called the BelvedereApollo ; from Neros

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