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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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another name for Persianart, modified, translated, though not enriched by Mohammedan touch.A building of that period that has had a most extraordinary in-fluence upon European and even American art is the Alhambra inthe city of Granada, the home of the ancient Moorish kings ofGranada, the Red Castle, in the Arabic tongue, the Casa Real ofthe Spaniards of our day. Some portions of that grand construc-tion have fallen into decay and other parts have been destroyed bylooters, but the Court of the Fish Pond and the Court of the Lions,with their beautiful colonnades and arcades, magnificent specimensof the ceramic arts and of the wondrous work done in intaglio andin inlays and in mosaics by the patient Arab toilers in the marblesbrought from Italy and Africa, still stand unmarred by the ravagesof time or the vandal hand of man. And Persia still remained the fountain-head, the base of supply,the genesis of that exquisite art. Did one want to build a palace THE INFLUENCE OF ORIENTAL ART. 611
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6i; THE OPEN COURT. or mosque of particular splendor, it was a Persian artist who wasentrusted with the commission; when Abderam decided to build theAlcazar at Cordova it was to Persia he sent for an architect, andwho will claim that even classic Greece gave birth to greater artists,men of more exalted ideals, more poetic inspiration and more skilfulin gracefully clothing those ideas in imperishable materials, thanwere the artists of the Middle Ages who first saw light in Kashan,in Hamadan, or in Geheran? To the westward that art drifted into what we call Arabian,and later Moorish ; to the east, India, perhaps, of all Oriental

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