Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 161
con-quered lands, extending from North Africa toPersia. In Egypt the Great Christian Schoolof Alexandria was in full activity, and in Syria,Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, other varietiesof Byzantine art were flourishing. In Persiathe type of art of this period is known asSassanian; its elements were… … THE EASTERN CYCLE 159 (c. 710), are almost perfectly Byzantine build-ings except for some touch of added energy.They are the most beautiful works of theirage. Some very interesting and beautifulearly Arab works in Mesopotamia have re-cently been published by Sarre and Herzfeld.Fig. 29 (II) shows a…
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