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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41190#0036
The
spread of
the new
Art
has ever been produced by man, but
in spite of its stately loveliness and
quietude, it was the mother of fierce
vigour in the days to come, for from
its first days in St. Sophia, Gothic
architecture has still one thousand
years of life before it j* East and
West it overran the world wher^
ever men built with history behind
them. In the East it mingled with
the traditions of the native popular
tions, especially with Persia of the
Sassanianperiod,andproducedthe
whole body of what we, very erro^
neously,call Arab Art (for the Arabs
never had any art) from Ispahan
to Granada. In the West it settled
itself in the parts of Italy that Jus^
tinian had conquered, notably Ra^
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spread of
the new
Art
has ever been produced by man, but
in spite of its stately loveliness and
quietude, it was the mother of fierce
vigour in the days to come, for from
its first days in St. Sophia, Gothic
architecture has still one thousand
years of life before it j* East and
West it overran the world wher^
ever men built with history behind
them. In the East it mingled with
the traditions of the native popular
tions, especially with Persia of the
Sassanianperiod,andproducedthe
whole body of what we, very erro^
neously,call Arab Art (for the Arabs
never had any art) from Ispahan
to Granada. In the West it settled
itself in the parts of Italy that Jus^
tinian had conquered, notably Ra^
28