Inside Out Library · Explore

The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace (1854)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 · London : Crystal Palace Library and Bradbury & Evans · leaf 37

An illustration from The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace, 1854, leaf 37
bosses, which would not crescences. violate the rule of construction, and yet be fatal to beauty of form, if they did not grow out gradually from the general lines. There can be no beauty of form, no perfect proportion or arrangement of lines, which does not produce repose. All transitions of… … are separated by a break, as in this case, they must, and with the Moors always do, run parallel to an imaginary line (c) where the curves would be tangential to each other ; for were either to depart from this, as in the case at d, the eye, instead of following gradually down the curve, would run…

Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England) · Islamic architecture -- Exhibitions · Exhibition buildings -- England -- London · Arkitektur -- Spanien

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Alhambra Court in the Crystal Palace

More like this