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 105
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,… … HALL OF JUSTICE, SHOWING FOUNTAIN OF COURT OF THE LIONS. There is evidently much more analogy between thesepaintings and the bas-relief than between them and the worksof the Spaniards after the Expulsion ; witness the bas-reliefsfrom the royal chapel of Granada, built by Ferdinand andIsabella,…
