The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)
Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 104
F JUSTICE. be regarded with the utmost interest. We may conjecture that the painter fell into thehands of the Moors by the fortune of war; or, on the otherhand, came by invitation to Granada. Much difference of opinion exists amongst writers who havedescribed the Alhambra with respect to these… … 42 The Alhambra. quest of Granada by Spanish painters. This opinion is foundedchiefly on the injunctions contained in the Koran, forbidding therepresentation of animated beings ; but that this law was dis-regarded by the builders of the Alhambra is fully proved by thefountain of the Court of Lions,…
