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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 341

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esutfered by recent changes, it still ])reseuts theeflect of l\Ioorish work. The Renaissance workat the top has not sufficed to destroy its charac-ter, and it is quite probable that all of the lowerpart is in essentially the condition it was beforethe Christian conquest. There are a number of other… … Spain, Architecture of: S.\xtiago de Cumiusti.lla: Cathedral, West Facade, 1U80. Christian conquerors after the Moorish kingdomhad been destroyed; but the work, the design,the decoration, were all intrusted to Moorishcaptives, and though it is not as pure in styleas the Alhambra, it is on the whole…

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