Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 269
rance in the répertoire ofornament, the Arab geometrists triedto deduce from it general principleswhich would permit them to extendthe system of the polygon to thewhole of decoration. Arab art, fromthat time on, became an exactscience^ and allowed the reverie ofthe m^^stic to be inclosed in the… … Mosque of the Al- jaferia, decorative detail. (Museum of Saragossa.) ^ A formula drew from the polygon and brought back to it all the geo-metrical motifs of decoration. ISLAM 243 arabesque which also has neither beginning nor end.The eye cannot come to rest on it. It is Hke thosevoices of the…
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