Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 268
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… … Granada (xiii Century). Hall of the Abencerrages in the Alhambra. 242 MEDIAEVAL ART the artists, the final styHzation of a motif from nature,just as the mathematical formula is, for the scientist,the form of expression which a truth derived fromexperience must take, and thereby grow inert. The…
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