ro, showing a networkof stars enclosing sunk panels and supported on abroad cornice of honeycomb or stalactite bracket-ing. There was a very fine one in the great mosqueof Damascus seen and described in 1184 by ibnJubair. The pictorial and ornamental style showsPersian influence, it is said ; the… … SARACENIC COLUMN, MUSEUM, PALERMO A 24 THE ARABS IN SICILY impertinent the supposition that Roger II. calledin Persian painter-joiners from Egypt as he calledin mosaicists from Greece, it is evident, surely,that there must have been a flourishing school ofpainting in Arabic Sicily, and a goodly…
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