Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 212
is harder than that of the best period of wood-carving inCairo, though these doors probably belong to the same epoch,the fourteenth century. The stiffness is the fault, one must con-clude, of the material, not of the artist; for the men who chiselledthe panels of El-Maridany and Kusiin (pp.… … FIG. 70.—INLAID IVORY AND EBONY DOOR. {Smith Kensington Museum.) >76 ART OF THE SARACENS. marvellous ingenuity of the Saracenic artist. The softer material,however, seems to have lent itself more readily to the expression)f these graceful outlines. The four panels (no. S85) of the St. Maurice…
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