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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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y 995 SB7 ~r. d Co.Scster. Antique Persian and OtherOriental Ceramics Old Spanish Azulejos Properly speaking, there is no Arabian art. The arts of the mediaeval East, like those of theWest, were derived from the common focus, Byzantium; and, in the East, the chief centre ofinnovation, growth, and diffusion was not Arabia, but Persia. Assuming—a large assumption—that the Arabs are to be credited with that taste for geo-metrical combinations so marked in all Mahometan ornament, and with the picturesque letteringknown by their name, it was Persia that gave a new life and greater elegance and suppleness to thestiff Byzantine forms, and it was from Persia that the new art radiated to Damascus, Broussa,Rhodes, and Keirouan. So close is the relation that, in many cases, it is unwise to affect to dis-tinguish the art of these places from the Persian. Even the very characteristic art of Moorish Spainshows unmistakable evidence of Persian derivation. But Persia has always been a centre of a

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