How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 95
c patterns, originallyof Byzantine influence,the slender columns,which, coming both fromthe Greek and the East,are indications of thecharacter of the people,light, graceful, delicate,with the later Byzantinecap overlaid with Moor-ish arabesque, or in imi-tation of the Corinthian,and the peculiar… … THE FIRST GREAT TRANSITION ence. These Moors or Arabs have the same fondnessfor highly colored geometrical patterns carried to such adegree that the word arabesque has been coined to de-scribe them (Figs. 30, 31). Developed at the same time, and along lines parallelto this marked ofTshoot, was the…
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