The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 299
ins are surmounted bySaracenic superstructures, and in this respect theWestern Arabs were, in a sense, unique, for no peopleever constructed so many superb buildings zvJio extractedfewer materials from the quarry P But whatever the method employed, and withoutconsidering whether the end justified… … \ i ^<- ■^«ir adventurers who invaded the peninsula in the eighthcentury arose a nation instinct with intellectual sub-tlety in art, full of warm, fervid imagination, and en-dowed with the delicate organization of the Asiatic,_ to whom exuberance of or- iTi|.l.UtTT.yj| nament may be safely…
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