nt of Arab civilisation;the highly cultivated demand for sumptuous andsuggestive surroundings and for lovely objects ofdaily use, that appealed in some quaint way, notmerely to the higher senses, but also to the witand fancy; and with this demand we must realise,again, a whole population of deft… … wJ<a, D w THE ARABS IN SICILY of fact very few of these portable and perishableobjects have survived anywhere from the earliestcenturies of Saracenic art, and among those thereare none, as far as I know, that are traced byconnoisseurs to Sicily. According to one of themost authoritative…
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