Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 214
itive Christianity. To these decorationswere then added the conventionalized figures; the surfaces werecovered with foliage and polygons, among which the cross isever conspicuous. This polygonal decoration, which soon reached great geo-metrical complexity, seems to have exercised a strange… … HARROW STREET III. 64. — Plan of Abu Sargah, Cairo. (From Butler) 91 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN STYLE polygon was always an even number. The decoration reachedits zenith in the wood screens of the Dair-as-Suriani, and formsthe basis for all the wonderful polygonal ornament of the Arabs.
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