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 179
rst creative types of some fresh world. Architects— 100 The Alhambra. Owen Jones amongst the number—inform us that the thing isvery simple: it is a beauty put together by mere receipt pro-ceeding from three primary figures—the right-angled triangle,the rectangle, and the isosceles triangle :… … MOSAIC IN DADO OF THE ENTRANCE TO THEHALL OF THE TWO SISTERS. can cook anything like it ? The same writer goes on to saythat in devising the Alhambra, the Moors were always thinkingof the Arab tent. They wanted air and lightness. The marblepillars are the tent spears, but of stone. The net-work…
