How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 96
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… … FIG. 30—COMPOSITE CAPITAL FROMSEVILLE (MOORISH) and ornament. While the interlaced and symbolic folia-tion of the Byzantine was colored by the Saracens in theirown peculiar manner, we find in the North the samemethod of ornament, under the influence of the Mongolianand the Tatar, rich and gaudy and…
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