A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 22
Apse, DaJweny, Linlithgowshire, c, 1150. Arabesque, a species of ornament used for enrichingflat surface s, eitherpainted, inlaid in \_mosaic, or carved ^ m … Arabesque. low relief: it Jwas much used by ~)the Arabs, as alsoby the Saracens orMoors in Spain.In the domestic ar-chitecture of this country in the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, this mode of ornamentation is very frequent, Araeo style, that style of the Grecian temple in whichthe columns…
