Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

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13-1Court of the Lions, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1354–1391.


The Palace of the Lions, named for its fountain’s unusual statues, is distinctly Islamic in the use of multilobed pointed arches
and the interweaving of Arabic calligraphy and abstract ornament in its stuccoed walls.

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