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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 237

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are still three well-preservedpaintings on leather, which were affixed to the ceilings of the threeniches in the so-called Hall of Judgment. One of these latter, withthe figures of ten kings of Granada, is decidedly of an Oriental char-acter, and mention is made by Moorish writers of works of… … Fig. 106.—Painting from the Hall of Judgment in the Alhambra. and 106). The hunts, chivalric encounters, and episodes of knight-ly love, even the architecture represented in them, are so foreign toArabic conceptions that they must be ascribed to Christian paintersor renegades. The methods of…

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