The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 308
m internal colour-ing comparable to Moorish or Egyptian handicraft. THE TURKISH PHASE. 285 On the contrary, one usually finds the piers heavy,the arches round, and the domes often supported oncolumns instead of springing lightly from penden-tives alone, while all the blazonry of colour peculiarto… … Fig. 112.—Fountain at Constantinople. iridescent colour, like the broken flame of an opal.But here originality ceases, and in the building ofmosques the Turk has preferred making poor adap-tations of Sta. Sophia to evolving new forms out ofthe beautiful Arabic art lying ready to his hand. 286 THE…
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