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 46
i . 3 a ■? ■ * s VARIOUS MOSAICS FROM THE ALHAMBRA. Introduction. xxxix. there are revived bright scraps of azure, gold, and vermilion ; butgenerally dull of outline, and dim in low, deep, shadow tone. Where the Moorish work is imitated, greens and purplesobtrude, to demonstrate how inferior is… … PANEL ORNAMENT IN THE ALHAMBRA. walls. Here the colours are the same as those of the oldMajolica ware. Sometimes these Azulcjo tiles, with theirlow-toned enamel colours, are formed into pillars, or pave thefloors in squares of fleurs-de-lis, or other heraldic emblems. Inthese dados, colour is seen…
