Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 233
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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