Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 225
e system forms the greatest possible contrast tothat of the Occident, which was developed upon antique forms.Nevertheless the later art of the Spanish Moslems retained manydetails which had been introduced in the works of intarsia and mo-saics, executed by Byzantine artists for the Moorish court.… … 7 S.£l Fig. ioo.—Part of the Court of the Myrtles in the Alhambra. twined patterns of the latter from braided work. The plant-formsof Moorish decorations are rather a kaleidoscopic arrangement ofconventionalized leaves than a systematic imitation of natural mod-els. They resemble in many ways the…
Art, Medieval
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