The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 páginas |
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... PERSIAN AMBASSADOR - WOMEN WHOM ONE SEES , WOMEN WHOM ONE DOES NOT SEE , AND WOMEN WHOM ONE IS SORRY FOR HAVING SEEN - THE DEPARTURE OF THE CAR- PET - A LITTLE SOAP - NOT ADIEU , BUT AU REVOIR . PAGE 140 PART II . SKETCH XI . SINAI , ON ...
... PERSIAN AMBASSADOR - WOMEN WHOM ONE SEES , WOMEN WHOM ONE DOES NOT SEE , AND WOMEN WHOM ONE IS SORRY FOR HAVING SEEN - THE DEPARTURE OF THE CAR- PET - A LITTLE SOAP - NOT ADIEU , BUT AU REVOIR . PAGE 140 PART II . SKETCH XI . SINAI , ON ...
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... Persian form ; those elegant minarets whose every stage is a marvel of sculpture , the gilded crescents which surmount them , the glittering fragments of porcelain - which still shine out amidst the marble arabesques , all this ...
... Persian form ; those elegant minarets whose every stage is a marvel of sculpture , the gilded crescents which surmount them , the glittering fragments of porcelain - which still shine out amidst the marble arabesques , all this ...
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... which decorate the tombs of the Mamelouks , so well do taste and ele- gance supply the place of the mathematical propor- tions of a purely massive and rude building . In QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens I 38 ARTISTS IN EGYPT .
... which decorate the tombs of the Mamelouks , so well do taste and ele- gance supply the place of the mathematical propor- tions of a purely massive and rude building . In QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens I 38 ARTISTS IN EGYPT .
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Or, Artists in Egypt Paul Lenoir. QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens I had an opportunity of study- ing this superiority of art over heaped up matter , a superiority which permits the Parthenon to be much smaller than the ...
Or, Artists in Egypt Paul Lenoir. QUANTITY AND QUALITY . 39 Persia and at Athens I had an opportunity of study- ing this superiority of art over heaped up matter , a superiority which permits the Parthenon to be much smaller than the ...
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... Persian artists ? either may be the case . The roof of these mausoleums is deco- rated with small domes , which are steeper and more angular than the Arab cupola proper , and which approach the very open arch of the Persian ogive ...
... Persian artists ? either may be the case . The roof of these mausoleums is deco- rated with small domes , which are steeper and more angular than the Arab cupola proper , and which approach the very open arch of the Persian ogive ...
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