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 164
nd in all of them Byzantine andPersian elements are mixed. The later mosques and tombs of Cairo andwestern Asia are wonderfully beautiful. Theyhave a universal quality; nothingis barbaric, and little is unintel-ligible ; the architecture is as lovelyas the word Arabian. Domes in Cairo are pointed… … 162 ARCHITECTURE cut off one quarter of the vertical radiusat the bottom and draw a level line, dropperpendiculars from the full diameter of thecircle to this line; from the angles of this basedraw two large arcs tangentially to the circleand meeting above it in a point. Persia in the later Middle…
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