Nicole Tourangeau

Slide ID's for Islamic Art

Out of text book!

The great mosque of Damascus: center of a Flourishing city, contains a shrine a prophet, a place

For pray, education(religious), political meetings.Mosiacs of geometric patterns ( a fire ruined them, some restored)

Built in early 700's in Syria

The Alhambra

Alhambra

-palace of Nasrid dynasty -Located in Spain

-Finised in late 1300's-Contains remains of Moorish domination

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

- Located in India, completed in 1648 C.E- One of the 8th world wonders

- entire white marble- built in Shah Jahan wife's memory

- forms an equal octogon- nterlocking arabesque (elements stand on own)

- symetric

Via Textbook

Look at outline for notes

Dome of the Rock

Mshatta

Mosque: Kairouan Tunisia

Cordoba

Horseshow arch

Pointed arch

Muqarnas

Congregational Mosque..

Vocabulary

Mosque: a muslim house of worship Mihrab: central niche in a mosque, which indicates the direction to mecca

Koran: the islamic sacred textJali: perforated ornamental stone screens

Arbesque: a flowing, intricate and symmetrical pattern deriving from floral motifs

Mosaic mihrab

Palace of the Lions

Sinan, Sultan Selim

Decorative display of mosaic /tiles

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