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 436
sh domes is, not their grandpoise and balance, but the airiness of them. They seem mereresting clouds swelling round you and canopying you with colour.You have no sense of their weight or means of permanency. Thestalactite ornament, as it is called, seems fashioned in emulousrivalry of… … J THE HALL OF AMBASSADORS. The Hall of Ambassadors is a square of thirty-seven feet,and is sixty feet high from the floor to the centre of the dome.It is the largest, as well as the most imposing of the Halls ofthe Alhambra, though in arrangement and symmetry of detailsless perfect than the Hall of…
