Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 223
e, so the highest devel-opment of Arabian culture was reached in the most remote countryto which it had extended. Instead of the heavy imitations of Corinthian or Byzantine col-umns which had been customary in the earlier Moorish style, thereappear in the Alhambra slender shafts, similar to those… … Fig. 99.—Capitals from the Alhambra. often with the addition of high mouldings encircled by small roun-dels, evidently imitated from the original socket of turned metalwhich served as the support of the wooden upright. The shafts arebut slightly diminished, never channelled, but at times…
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