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 662
(427) The Generalife. 429 colle and almaqu, i.e., size mixed with a reddish earth, andrendered obnoxious to insects. The black lines which orna-ment the wood-work are believed to have been traced with ahot iron. … GALLERY IN THE GENERALIFE. Nothing can exceed the symmetry of the Portico of theGeneralife. The columns are of white marble, surmounted byarches and arabesques. The inscription, many times repeated,and running along the whole front of the Portico, is thatwhich occurs so frequently in the Alhambra,…
