Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 205
Hakim, of the eleventh, and in the mosques of Barkukand Salaheddin Yussuf, of the twelfth century. The later exam-ples, although each offering new solutions of the architectural prob-lem, do not display important constructive improvements, and noone form of columns or archivolts decidedly… … Fig. 89.—View of the Mosque of Ibn-Tulun, in Cairo. the Arabs is certainly the Mosque of Hassan, A. D. 1356, in whichthe European influences are even more apparent than in theMosque of Yussuf. The court, which in the earlier examples wasso extensive, is here contracted to a small opening for…
Art, Medieval
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