Islamic Art & Architecture from Spain


Great Mosque, Cordoba/ Great Mosque, Cordoba, interior dome/ Alhambra: Mexuar (Council Chamber)/ Alhambra: Patio de los Leones/ Alhambra: Sala de los Abencerrajes/


Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, arcades

view towards E./ view towards E./ Interior detail/ lnterior (Juan Laurent Photograph)
785-786, Umayyad period (enlarged ca.987) Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, arcades.




Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, dome

Interior dome/ detail
785-786, Umayyad period (enlarged ca.987) Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, dome in front of the mihrab. added ca. 965 (during the reign of al-Hakam II)




Alhambra: Mexuar (Council Chamber)

Interior detail
ca. 14th C, Alhambra: Mexuar (Council Chamber), detail of wall decorated with calligraphic stucco work and glazed ceramic tile mosaics in geometric patterns.




Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions)

view from SE/ portico on W. side/ stone lions
ca. 14th C, Alhambra: Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions) with central fountain (12 stone lions, possibly Visigothic Christian or earlier Islamic, reused in this context).




Alhambra: Sala de los Abencerrajes

detail of dome
14-15th C, Alhambra: Sala de los Abencerrajes, detail of dome showing stucco mocarabes, muqarnas, and attawriq stylized foliate designs.





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