The decorative periods . , more details of strapwork being interlaced most ingeni-ously. Series of designs were interwoven into a complexensemble. The floral and geometrical details which wereignored by the Arabians, were each and every one ornamented ^ igairg g? rgq ^f ?•4>^^j/iai .^>Tif ^ ^i^^^^^^H^^-^^IH^^ ? J^^^lff u: :?ii>l®t«IS2§S6 PERSIAN 52 The Decorative Periods with rare skill by the Moors. Gold, red and blue were muchused. The Moorish treatment impresses one with the idea ofone pattern interlacing another. Inscriptions were used deco-ratively; hieroglyphics were used orname
The decorative periods . , more details of strapwork being interlaced most ingeni-ously. Series of designs were interwoven into a complexensemble. The floral and geometrical details which wereignored by the Arabians, were each and every one ornamented ^ igairg g? rgq ^f ?•4>^^j/iai .^>Tif ^ ^i^^^^^^H^^-^^IH^^ ? J^^^lff u: :?ii>l®t«IS2§S6 PERSIAN 52 The Decorative Periods with rare skill by the Moors. Gold, red and blue were muchused. The Moorish treatment impresses one with the idea ofone pattern interlacing another. Inscriptions were used deco-ratively; hieroglyphics were used ornamentally. In the Al-hambra the walls were covered with inscriptions. The Turks were nomadic tribes converted to Mohammedan-ism in the Seventh Century. The TURKISH dynasties reignedin Palestine, Syria and Egypt, and under the name of Turko-mans covered Bokhara. The power of the Turks in Asia Minorand the rapid expansion of the Mohammedan faith in the Four-teenth Century gave great anxiety to all Christendom. Floods. ALHAMBRAIC The Decorative Periods 53
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