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 170
166 ARCHITECTURE From the first the Arab builder adopted the pointed arch. At Mshatta in Moab, the arches, of brick, were acutely pointed. At the Dome of the Rock (seventh century), the arches are bluntly pointed as finished with marble casings, but they are probably truly pointed in the structure.… … Byzantine work, but Fig. 37. it was typical of the Arabian styles, and by the eleventh century it was widely distributed over Europe and reached England in the twelfth. As early as the ninth century the horseshoe form of arch is common in the painted MSS. of the Christian Visigoths (fig. 36). The…
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