Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6 (1897)
Clark, John Spencer, Prang Company, Hicks Mary D, Perry, Walter Scott · Boston. Prang educ. co. · leaf 84
t was an outgrowth of the Mohammedan religion. It arose in Arabia andwas developed on the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean by theArabians and the Moors. They conquered Spain and inhabited it. During theirdomination in Spain, the Saracenic style reached its greatest magnificence.* *… … 74 TEACHERS MANUAL. [hook ir. The Moors were a very remarkable people, highly civilized and keenly intel-lectual, and their ornament bears the stamp of these characteristics. Forbidden bytheir religion to imitate plant or animal forms, they based their ornament on geom-etry. They delighted in a…
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