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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 235

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th the few remaining carvingsof wood, in which single human figures are introduced into ara-besques in combination with musical instruments, vessels, and hunt-ing accoutrements. The conventional treatment of animal forms in the textile worksof the Moslems, which were so highly prized throughout… … Fig. 104.—Miniature in a Manuscript of Ibn Zafer, of Sicily, Library of the Escurial. umental paintings were almost altogether unknown. The artists inmosaic who had been invited from Constantinople occasionally ex-ceeded the limits of merely decorative representations, but theirworks were entirely…

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