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Excerpt from Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, Vol. 2: A Work of Reference for the Architect, Builder, Sculptor, Decorative Artist, and General Student; With Numerous Illustrations From All Styles of Architecture; From the Egyptian to the Renaissance
Thus, the greatest school of modern arabesque was founded, upon the ruins of the ancient art, by the genius of one man; it reached its culmi nating point in his lifetime, and then gradually decayed in the hands of inferior artists, in Italy and elsewhere, until it lost itself in the rococo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
