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ORNAMENT.
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However much disguised, the whole ornamentation of the Moors is constructed geometrically.
FRET.—FIG. 1. FORMED BY THE INTERLACING OF LINES. THE NUMEROUS FRETS THROUGHOUT THE PALACE ARE FORMED UPON THE TWO PRINCIPLES EXHIBITED IN THIS AND FOLLOWING DIAGRAM.
It is probable that the immense variety of Moorish ornaments, which are formed by the intersection of equi-distant lines, could be traced through the Arabian to the Greek fret.
The Moorish system of decoration reached its culminating point in the ornament of the Alhambra. Owen Jones says: “The Alhambra is at the very summit of perfection of Moorish art ... every principle which we can derive from the study of the ornamental art of any other people is not only ever present here, but was by the Moors more universally and truly obeyed. We find in the Alhambra the speaking art of the Egyptians, the natural grace and refinement of the Greeks, the geometrical combination of the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Arabs.