cipolline

Updated: May 8, 2025

The cipolline columns carrying the round arches on their square capitals are lustreless, and their green-veined marble looks like long-buried wood. The mosaic pavement stretches its discs and volutes of porphyry and serpentine or yellowed Parian marble, a tarnished and uneven carpet, to the greenish-white marble steps of the chancel.

Vernon Lee - Renaissance Fancies and Studies: Being a Sequel to Euphorion