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A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. sgn, Fenwick, Isabella. ins, Reed, Henry. sgn, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 46

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st celebrated Arabesques of moderntimes are those of Raphael in the Vatican: thiskind of ornament was much used in the domesticarchitecture of this country in the sixteenth andseventeenth centuries, and is frequent in monu-ments of the same period, particularly of thetime of James I., and seems to… … 24 ARABIAN ARCHITECTURE. Arabian Architecture^ is called also Saracenic and Moorish^and may be called Moliainmedan : it owes its birth to that reh-gionj and became the predominating form of building whereverthe followers of its tenets have extended their power. It isa fanciful and interesting…

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