A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 573
m of the mosque, and introduce the readerto a new mode of giving expression to portals, which after the dateof this building is nearly universal in the East. The entrance-dooris small, but covered by a semi-dome of considerable magnitude,giving it all the grandeur of a portal as large as the main… … 985. Mosque at Tabreez. Scale 100ft. to 1 in. 1 Both the plan and view are takenfrom Baron Texiers Armenie et laPerse, which gives also several coloredplates of the mosaic decorations, from which their beauty of detail may bejudged, though not the effect of thewhole. Bk. I. Ch. V. PERSIA. 553 their…
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