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| - After the Arabian manner. A species of decoration so called because it was practised by the conquerors of Spain Arabs, Moors, or Saracens, as they were indifferently termed by their Christian neighbours. The dogmas of the Mahommedan code, forbidding the representation of animals, in order to avoid even the semblance of idolatry, they employed plants and trees, with stalks, tendrils, foliage, flowers, and fruit, producing an endless variety of forms and combinations. Hence all fanciful decorations of natural objects used to form the continuous ornament of a flat surface, came to be called arabesques, though differing so widely from the Arabian compositions as to be filled with representations of animals of every variety, and with fantastic combinations of plants and animals almost equally c
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| - After the Arabian manner. A species of decoration so called because it was practised by the conquerors of Spain Arabs, Moors, or Saracens, as they were indifferently termed by their Christian neighbours. The dogmas of the Mahommedan code, forbidding the representation of animals, in order to avoid even the semblance of idolatry, they employed plants and trees, with stalks, tendrils, foliage, flowers, and fruit, producing an endless variety of forms and combinations. Hence all fanciful decorations of natural objects used to form the continuous ornament of a flat surface, came to be called arabesques, though differing so widely from the Arabian compositions as to be filled with representations of animals of every variety, and with fantastic combinations of plants and animals almost equally contrary to nature. The ancients excelled in this species of decoration, as we see in many of the Greek vases, in the edifices of Herculanemn and Pompeii, in the ruins of the baths of Titus, and in Adrian's viUa at Tivoli. The most celebrated arabesques of modem times are those with which Eaphael ornamented the ^'^Loggii of the Vatican, and they are often gracefully introduced in the decoration of the MajoHca pottery. (See coloured plate, "Pilgrim's Bottle.)
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