. A short history of art . oo OO ;?o 4-> O O T3 && 3 o. s c8 c3 o 0 u - A Oo ^^ ^ ^§ o H *j J3 J 60 < ^1 I3j C7_ 0 • r-t I—< s H Si 3 pq MOHAMMEDAN ART 159 There are two typical forms of mosques:— 1st. Those with a large square court enclosed by corri-dors, deepest on the side nearest the inner sanctuary. 2d. Those with a central dome in the Byzantine style. The arches in Saracenic or Mohammedan architecturewere usually pointed, although horseshoe and wedge-shapedarches were common. The domes were very similar to Byzantine domes, but theywere more pointed on the exterior. The decorati
. A short history of art . oo OO ;?o 4-> O O T3 && 3 o. s c8 c3 o 0 u - A Oo ^^ ^ ^§ o H *j J3 J 60 < ^1 I3j C7_ 0 • r-t I—< s H Si 3 pq MOHAMMEDAN ART 159 There are two typical forms of mosques:— 1st. Those with a large square court enclosed by corri-dors, deepest on the side nearest the inner sanctuary. 2d. Those with a central dome in the Byzantine style. The arches in Saracenic or Mohammedan architecturewere usually pointed, although horseshoe and wedge-shapedarches were common. The domes were very similar to Byzantine domes, but theywere more pointed on the exterior. The decorations of Mohammedan architecture were verybeautiful. Conventionalised plants and animals, intricategeometric figures, and texts from the Koran in Kufic char-acters, were interwoven in an exquisite surface ornamenta-tion of gold and gorgeous colours, which is known as ara-besque. The earliest monuments of Arabian architecture are to befound in Egypt at Cairo. The Mosque of Amru
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