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.

by John W. Mollett

Patulous. Spreading.

Paul Veronese Green. An arsenite or arseniate of copper. A fine and durable colour, used either for oil or water-colour painting. (See Emerald Green.)

Pavilion, Arch. A projecting apartment, usually with a dome or turret.

Fig. 525. Pavimentum (sectile).

Pavimentum, R. A pavement formed by means of pieces of tile, crushed stones, flints, and other materials set in a bed of ashes or cement, and consolidated by beating down with the rammer (pavicula), whence its name of pavimentum. There were various kinds of pavimenta: the sectile (Figs. 525, 526), the tessellatum or tesseris structum, the vermiculatum, the sculpturatum, and the testaceum, &c.

Fig. 526. Pavimentum (sectile).

Pavo. (See Peacock.)

Pavonaceum (sc. opus), R. An arrangement of materials placed so as to overlap one another, and bearing more or less resemblance to the feathers in a peacock’s tail.