cosmati's

Updated: May 28, 2025

They affect one the "Stabat Mater," for instance, and the "Ave Verum" very much in the same way as the figures which stare down, dingy green and blue, from the gold of the Cosmati's mosaics: childish, dreary, all stiff and agape, but so solemn and pathetic, and full of the greatest future.

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