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Lecture 4
The Islamic World
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Art History
Pre-School
12/14/2010

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Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem

687-92

Islamic

  • Primary Patron: Abd Al-Malik

  • Constructed in response to a military victory

  • Thought of as a tribute, and ascendancy of the islamic world

  • Former site of Temple of Solomon, burial of Adam

  • Jesus dies and was resurrected in Jerusalem

  • Earliest work of Islamic Architecture

  • octagonal plan- similar to san vitale,santa costanza and Holy sepulchre

  • Dome made of wood, gilded, and entirely covered with mosaics

  • mosaics contain foliage, lavish pots, and crowns

  • Also mosaics with inscriptions-speak of christ as a messenger of god, rather than as a son of god

 

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Great Mosque of Cordoba

Spain,

784 

Islamic

  • hypostyle hall: flat ceiling supported by columns

  • cordoba- great intellectual capital of Europe

  • Provided hall for prayer and for teaching

  • two leveled mosque- short columns with a layer on top

  • arches pinched in at the base.

  • Suggest nostalgia for Umayyad homeland (mosque at Damascus) or possibly influenced by roman architecture

    Dome's squinches form unique octagonal pattern

     

 

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Mosque of Selim II, Edirne, Turkey, 1568-75

Islamic

  • Created by sinan

  • Built Selim II at 80 years of age

  • Inspired by Haggia Sophia, but with a larger dome

  • four large minarets

    Dome rests on supports that form octagon 

     

     

 

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Koran Page,

c. 1000

Baghdad

Islamic

  • Caligraphy was a spiritual exercise.

  • Page made purely of text

  • Script written from left to right

  • Kufic script- only consonants written with vowels indicated by dots

 

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Mihrab with blue tiles from Isfahan, Iran 1354

Islamic

  • blue tiles highlighted by white tiles

  • right angles avoided   

    Kuran Lines

    Pointed arch

     

 

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Decorative stucco

Granada, Court of Lions

Islamic

  • Inscription reads “ you would think that they are heavenly spirits”

 

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