Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 327
Fig. 343.--Alhambra Diaper, Superposed Ornament. SO it was quite natural that the Moslem mosque should bebuilt and decorated on the main lines of the ByzantineChristian church. The dome and the niche {iiicJirab) came VOL, I. X 3o6 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. ■£=^ … Fig. 344.—StalactiteVaultinLT. from the Byzantine ; the minarets—which are not strictlyessential in Moslem architecture—probably from the Per-seopolitan columns. The Moslem dome, however, mayhave had its origin in the domed palaces of Persia, of theAchsemedian dynasty. Saracenic ornament is mostly,…
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