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Title: Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Whishaw, Bernhard Whishaw, Allen Mary
Subjects: Art, Byzantine Arabs -- Spain Spain -- History
Publisher: London : Smith
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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kingshouses. In another generation or two all such arts and crafts willhave died out for want of a market, but to-day the workwould be forthcoming were it appreciated by the wealthy.A gallant effort to revive and develop the ancient azulejoand faience industry of Seville is being made by the presentDirector and Secretary of the School of Art there, SresPitalugo and Mattoni, but the admirable work turned outby their students meets with small encouragement from thewealthy householders of the city. Great new houses are 380 AEABIC SPAIN: HER HISTORY AND ART yearly being built here at the cost of millions of pesetas ;but—although cultivated Americans consider the Sevillecraftsmen good enough to engage as teachers for AmericanSchools of Art—the men who preserve Copto-Arabictraditions have to spend their lives setting up machine-madeproducts manufactured in London, Paris, or New York,instead of continuing to produce the beautiful manualwork which they have kept aUve for a thousand years.
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Fig. 12.—Convpnto dr In Luz (Xo. 3). Aral^ic arches in the modern part. i APPENDIX Note to Chapter I Chambeelain, in the introduction to his Foundations of Che Nine-teenth Century, remarks that in Spain it was tlie Western Gothswho formed the element of life. ^ The vitality of this race is evincedby the fact that for nearly seven hundred years they maintained theirreUgion, their customs, even their family names, amid an aUen race ofhostile creed. From 711 to 1390, when as we have seen the de-scendants of the good Goths were permitted to return to Seville,they held their own not only in their native land, but also in Morocco,when war and persecution drove them out of Andalucia to take refuge■with the Moslem rulers who some three hundred years later commendedthem to the monarch of Castile in the complimentary terms quotedon p. 33. The history of Andalucia from the coming of Musa to the fall ofthe Almohades of Seville in 1248 has been so misread that the partplayed by the Gothic comm

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