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Granada, present and bygone (1908)

Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946, Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine), 1867-1928 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 140

An illustration from Granada, present and bygone, 1908, leaf 140
influence of their Christian neighbours. Moham-medan culture became acclimatised. As the centuriesrolled by it differentiated ever more and more fromits primitive models, from the styles of Syria andEgypt. The Alhambra, though it remains the finestsecular monument with which Islam has endowed io8… … Painting in the Hall of Justice ff much of their fanaticism and austerity. The> werenot precisely decadent, but as a nation they hadexpended the fire and enthusiasm of youth and werereconciled to their middle age. When too critical,also, of the Alhambra, we must not forget that itwas primarily…

Cano, Alonso, 1601-1667 · Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Architecture -- Spain Granada · Granada (Spain) -- Description and travel · Granada (Spain) -- History

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