Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 146
om theirnew developments ofsurface ornament theoriginality of theArab architectureshows itself in the em-ployment of thepointed and of the^horseshoe arch.These forms weremost consonant withthe light and airynature of their con-structions, whichwere frequently of asomewhat flimsy char-acter. It is… … Fig, 75.—Arcades ix the Mosque ofAmru. Cairo. 132 ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL ART. the Arab and Christian art, which was especially appar-ent in Sicily. The Arabs had conquered Sicily in theeighth century but were displaced by the Normans as apolitical power in the eleventh century. As late as thethirteenth…
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