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‖ opus sectile|ˈɒpəs ˈsɛktɪleɪ|
[L., lit. ‘cut work’.]
A form of floor decoration dating from Roman times and made up of pieces shaped individually to fit the pattern or design, in which respect it differs from mosaic which is an arrangement of regularly shaped pieces.
1852Murray's Handbk. N. Italy (ed. 4) 491/1 This Florentine mosaic seems to be the ‘opus sectile’ of the Romans. 1854Wyatt & Waring Byzantine & Romanesque Court in Crystal Palace 39 ‘Opera di commesso’—that is, a mosaic formed by slices of marble, arranged somewhat on the principle of the ancient ‘opus sectile’, the projections of one piece being so cut as to enter into the recesses of another. 1935E. W. Anthony Hist. Mosaics iii. 48 The work which the Romans designated as opus sectile does not come under the head of mosaic, although it has sometimes been thus classified. 1948Antiquity XXII. 77 Opus sectile floors at the major sites of Cyrene and Tolmeita. 1950O. Demus Mosaics of N. Sicily iii. i. 369 There existed..a technique of decoration somewhat akin to mosaic, the Saracenic opus sectile. 1971P. Fischer Mosaic 80 Earthenware pieces are specially cut to the individual shapes required by the design..rather in the manner of the second type of Roman opus sectile. 1978Sci. Amer. Jan. 116/2 This kind of pavement is known as opus sectile (the Latin phrase for cut work), and the example in our house is the first Byzantine opus sectile floor found in a private house in Carthage that can be confidently dated. |