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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 131

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68 The Alhambra. here been blended with the happiest effect. The delightedobserver is spell-bound, and finds it difficult to remove himselffrom the fascination of the place. The lattice window of the upper story gives light to a corridorleading to apartments appropriated to the fair odalisques. It… … UPPER BALCONY OF THE HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS. the splendid fetes enacted for their entertainment in the greathall below, but in which they could participate only as distantspectators. These gratings are precisely similar in their con-struction to those which are now seen in the hareems of the East.…

Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Islamic architecture · Decoration and ornament, Arabic

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