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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. Excerpt from Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, Vol. 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.