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

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 346

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uHered by recent changes, it still jjresents theeflcct of Moorish work. The Renaissance workat the top has not sufficed to destroy its charac-ter, and it is (juite probable that all cjf the lowerl)art is in essentially the condition it was beforethe Christian conquest. There are a immber of other… … Sp\IN \1 HITI TIRI SiNTIV DF f MP TUL-V C \THEDRAL \\ tST FAf \DIL II SO Christian conipierors after the Moorish king<loinhad 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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