Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 162
ARCHITECTURE 158 interlacing patterns which later became widely distributed. Some early Christian churches were built as far to the east as Nisibis and the Arabian desert, and as far to the south as Khartoum, The terrain which came to be occupied by Saracen conquerors in the seventh century had,… … with great rapidity into a rich and powerful em- pire, it took over the arts Fig. 34. and artists of the con- quered lands, extending from North Africa to Persia. In Egypt the Great Christian School of Alexandria was in full activity, and in Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, other varieties of…
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