Identifier: architectureclas00smituoft (find matches)
Title: Architecture, classic and early Christian
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas Roger, d 1903 Slater, John
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Publisher: London : Sampson Low
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fjg. 186.—Hoese-shoe AllCH.
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256 MOHAMMEDAN ARCniTECTURE. materials obtained from older buildings, exhibits pointedarches, not only in the arcades, wliich probably have beenrebuilt since they were originally formed, but in the outerwalls, which are likely, in part at least, to be original. Whatever uncertainty may rest upon these very remotespecimens of pointed architecture, there is little if anyabout the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, also at Cairo, and builtA.D. 885, or, according to another authority, a.d. 879.Here arcades of bold pointed arches spring from piers,and the efiect of the Avhole structure is noble and fullof character. From that time the pointed arch wasconstantly used in Saracenic buildings along with thesemicircular and the horse-shoe arcli (Fig. 18C). From the ninth century, then, the pointed arch wasia constant use. It prevailed in Palestine as well as inthe adjacent countries for two centuries before it reachedthe West, and there can be no doubt that it was thereseen by the Western Crusaders, and a kn

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