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The dining room, or triclinium, was situated in the centre of the main building, and was highly decorated with a pair of large mosaics on the floor dating to the mid-4th century.
Internally it was lavishly decorated with gold-trimmed marble floors, columns, mosaics and colossal statuary.
A domed church with a cross-shaped nave and elongated apse, and dating from the perhaps as early as the end of the 6th century, its bema was decorated with very fine mosaics that had been restored in the 9th century.
* La Maison Picassiette, a house decorated inside and out with mosaics of chards of broken china and pottery
In addition to houses, some of which are decorated with mosaics and wallpaintings, a number of public buildings have come to light, such as those in the agora and the harbour mole.
The earliest grand Islamic buildings, like the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem had interior walls decorated with mosaics in the Byzantine style, but without human figures.
The outer walls of the Sanctuary of the Reclining Buddha, also known as Red Chapel, are decorated with mosaics.
Its interior and dome are decorated with colourful mosaics by Clayton and Bell representing religious scenes.
Inside they are decorated with mosaics.
The basilica was built on the foundations of a 16th-century fort constructed by Francis I of France to resist the 1536 siege of the city by the Emperor Charles V. The basilica is made up of two parts: a lower church, or crypt, dug out of the rock and in the Romanesque style, and an upper church of Neo-Byzantine style decorated with mosaics.
The crypt, low height, is not very enlightened and without decoration while the higher church lit by bays is richly decorated with polychrome marbles and mosaics.
It is covered with three cupolas decorated with mosaics carried out in an identical way: on a sowing of flowers are illustrated of the doves in circle around a central floret.
The lower portion of the façades are blank with a flat surface of rectangular blocks punctuated by doorways, while the upper façade is richly decorated with intricate stone mosaics, often alternating repeated geometric elements with more elaborate figurative sculpture.
From 1960 – 1962 the Blessed Sacrament Chapel was decorated in a traditional, early Christian, style with the mosaics being predominantly pale pink in order to afford a sense of light and space.
The interior of the main tent-shaped hall is covered in white marble and decorated with mosaics and calligraphy by the famous Pakistani artist Sadequain, and a spectacular Turkish-style chandelier.
The mosque walls were decorated with mosaics by Coptic and Greek craftsmen, similar to those seen in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem ( built by the same caliph ).
The fourth altar, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was decorated with Florentine mosaics by José Ramalho in 1695.
Artisans of Nikopolis decorated many of the city's basilicas with some high-quality mosaics, developing their own workshop, operating until the 550s, whose influence extended to the rest of Epirus and perhaps further afield in eastern Illyricum.
Also the beginning of construction of the three-aisled Basilica Α decorated with an extensive series of extant floor mosaics.
The floors and the walls are decorated with 6th century mosaics.
Additionally, Avtozavodskaya is decorated with eight mosaics depicting events of the Great Patriotic War.
Smith conducted formal dinners at his villa, an estate surrounded by gardens and terraces, with two large drawing rooms decorated with mosaics, oriental rugs and art treasures.
The interior of the entire complex was decorated in a combination of pseudo cave-and-classic architecture, with faux rock-work and stone, real marble floors, triumphal arches, brass railings, painted mosaics, atmospheric sky domes, banners, torches, Roman " classical " furniture and lamp reproductions, statuary, caryatids and telemons, bas-relief faces of mythical personages, and intricately cast " carved " designs, all theatrically lighted.
The walls, ceilings, and floors of the catacombs are decorated with mosaics and murals.

mosaics and walls
During that time, he painted nearly nonstop and created the outside walls with tile mosaics, featuring Aztec deities such as Quetzalcoatl.
In 833, Gregory completely rebuilt St Mark ’ s Basilica in Rome, adorning the walls with Byzantine-style mosaics, as well as a number of other churches which he either repaired or rebuilt.
Small pieces of colored and iridescent shell have been used to create mosaics and inlays, which have been used to decorate walls, furniture and boxes.
There are mosaics which decorate the walls of the tunnel close to the railway station.
Several restorations since 1958 to address structural damage have resulted in the extensive replacement of tiles, mosaics, ceilings, and walls such that " nearly everything that one sees in this marvelous building was put there in the second half of the twentieth century ", but without significant change to its original form and structure.
The nave's interior walls were also redecorated with scenes from Saint Paul's life in two mosaics.
Formerly sparsely-ornamented houses acquired columns, statues, mosaics on the floors, tapestries and paintings on the walls.
Saladin ordered all the inner walls and pillars of the Dome of the Rock to be covered in marble and he initiated the renovation of the mosaics on the dome's drum.
However, the walls of the large inner courtyard have mosaics of encrusted volcanic stone that depict a goat, a rabbit, flames and elements of the Passion of Christ, such as the weeping face of Saint Veronica, her tears flowing red.
The intense artistic mosaics that grace the walls of the ancient masterpieces reveal stories of rulers, the underworld ( Xibalba ), Mayan creation, and even the particular function of the vessel.
The Byzantines, upon constructing the new church, placed the central octagon directly on top of the walls of St. Peter's house with the aim of preserving its exact location, although none of the original house was visible any longer, as the walls had been torn down and the floor covered in mosaics.
The elaborate mosaics are considered to be a type of “ Baroque ” design as the designs are elaborate and intricate and in some cases cover entire walls.
While the mosaics in the side chapels and sanctuary walls were designed and installed by Tiffany Studios, the mosaics in the main cathedral areas were designed by August Oetken.
Throughout the room there is an assortment of semi-precious stones, forming mosaics of acorns ( the Vanderbilt family symbol for strength and longevity ) and billiard balls on the top walls.
The most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople-the image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery.
The station's interiors are notable for the large and colorful mosaics which decorate almost all walls.
There are only small mosaics on the track-side walls and " uptown " and " downtown " directional mosaics in the mezzanine.

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