Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 223
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 many-details which had been introduced in the works of intarsia and mo-saics, executed by Byzantine artists for the Moorish court.… … 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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