Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 267
erythingthat detached from the walls, the nimbars,^ the banis-ters, and the gratings, was embroidered with interlacing ^ In Moorish architecture the term for the niche in the mosque indicatingthe direction of Mecca. MO MEDIAEVAL ART lines; stone and plaster were perforated, wood wasinlaid, plaques… … Cairo. Detail of the façade of the Kalaoum Mosque (1284). times to fall on the cupolas and the graded minaretswhere the interlacings and the arabesques becamemore and more complicated. The whole thing becamelike a hanging fairyland, like cobwebs in the greatgarden of space, dust, and sunlight. The…
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