A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 554
the corresponding process took place under the aus-pices of a set of refugee Italian artists, who engrafted their would-beclassical notions on the Moorish style, with a vulgarity of form andcolour of which we have no conception. In the later buildings ofMehemet AH and his contemporaries we find the… … Mosque of Kaitbey. (From Costes Architecture Arabe. ) Prom its size and the beauty of the materials, the mosque erectedby the late Pasha in the citadel of Cairo ought to rival any of the moroancient buildings in the city; but it is already falling to pieces, andexcept for the fact that its main…
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