Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art (1912)
Whishaw, Bernhard, Whishaw, Allen Mary · London : Smith · leaf 164
orse-shoe arches with just suchcornices and corbels are built on outside the Roman gatewaysin the city walls. The actual date of the arched porches mayvary, and it is not difficult in some cases to form a guess atthe time which elapsed between the building of one andanother. But the obvious… … Fig. 5.—Convento de la Luz (No. 1). Copto-Ai-abic arches of the CentiCourt with fifteenth-century arcades above. THE INFLUENCE OF THE COPTS IN SPAIN 133 and Santa Ana in Seville, work which we know to have beendone under Alfonso X., in 1261 and 1282. There the advancein method and design is so…
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