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32 Cards in this Set
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Triumph of Dionysus Sasanian Art- Iraq and Western Iran Silver Gilt Plate 4th-6th c CE Borrowed Near East and Greco-Roman traditions and iconography to express a new Iranian cultural identity |
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Dancing Maenad Sasanian Art- Iraq and Western Iran Silver Gilt Vase 4th-6th c. CE Maenad- follower of god Dionysus. Shows adoption of Greco-Roman iconography again. Transfer Adoption Integration |
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Dome of the Rock Jerusalem 691 CE Umayyad Art Abd al-Malik One of the oldest works of Islamic architecture Architecture and Mosaics patterned after nearby Byzantine churches and palaces It is a shrine but not a mosque. Public monument. Considered the spot where the Islamic prophet Muhammed ascended to heaven |
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Dome of the Rock architectural plan Ambulatories(circular aisles) |
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Dome of the Rock Mosaic |
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Dome of the Rock |
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The Great Mosque of Damascus 706 CE Umayyad Art Believed to be where Jesus will return at the End of Days Under rule of Caliph Al-Walid Recycled columns and arcades of church |
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Mosque of Damascus architectural plan |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba Spain Prayer hall 784-988 Umayyad exile- Prince Abd al-Rahman Example of the Muslim world's ability to brilliantly develop architectural styles based on pre-existing regional traditions |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba plan |
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Great Mosque of Cordoba mihrab and dome Dome is supported by squinches |
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Kufic Calligraphy oldest calligraphic form *most important* used in Quran and religious texts has long horizontal parts |
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Naskhi Calligraphy replaced its predecessor, Kufic script, or that this style allows faster copying of texts |
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Thuluth Calligraphy straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines. In Thuluth, one-third of each letter slopes |
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Nastaliq Calligraphy one of the main calligraphic hands used in writing the Persian script, and traditionally the predominant style in Persian calligraphy |
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Muqarnas a form of architectural ornamented vaulting, the "geometric subdivision of a squinch, or cupola, or corbel, into a large number of miniature squinches, producing a sort of cellular structure", sometimes also called a "honeycomb" vault. around the middle of the 10th century in northeastern Iran and almost simultaneously — but apparently independently — in North Africa |
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"Arabesque" a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements developed out of the long-established traditions of plant-based scroll ornament in the cultures taken over by the early Islamic conquests often said to arise from the Islamic view of the world (see above). The depiction of animals and people is generally discouraged, which explains the preference for abstract geometric patterns. Interchangeability (of units and medium) Capacityfor Infinite Pattern 1. Geometric 2. Vegetal |
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Samanid Pottery Lack of figural decoration and the use of the Arabic alphabet seems to conform with the traditional Islamic aniconic strictures, as seen on the reformed coinage of ‘Abd al-Malik. However, the "Islamic" nature of these plates thus contradicts the political background from which they emerge: as described in the History of the Region this is a period of strife between the new Arab and the old Persian aristocracies. These vessels are like no other type of pottery that is produced anywhere in the Islamic world before or since the Samanid period, and they bear no aesthetic relation to the major pottery types that coexisted with them. |
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Court of the Lions Alhambra Palace Complex in Granada, Spain between 1362 and 1391 AD commissioned by the Nasrid sultan Muhammed V of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus. the beginning of a new style, an exuberant mixture of Moorish and Christian influences that has been called Nasrin style During the period that Muhammad V was ousted as sultane of Granada by his stepbrother, Abu-l Walid Ismail, he discovered in exile a host of new aesthetic influences that were not in the language of his predecessors Persian gardens that is root of the Islamic gardening, the courtyard divided in four parts, each one of them symbolizing one of the four parts of the world. Each part is irrigated by a water channel that symbolize the four rivers of Paradise. This courtyard is, therefore, an architectural materialization of Paradise, where the gardens, the water, and the columns form a conceptual and physical unity. Lions shown in a subordinate position, as carrying the bowl of the fountain, helps to dispel any possibility of an idolatrous intention |
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Court of the Myrtles acted as a symbol of power 1300’s—Nasrid Dynasty Yusuf I (1333-1354) Muhammad V (1354-1391) |
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Khirbat al Mafjar-- Lion and Gazelle Mosaic Walid II (r. 743–744) 710-750 Jericho, in the West Bank. shows the continuing high-quality mosaics produced in the region into the early Islamic period decoration neatly summarizes the crosscultural currents of Umayyad elite patronage. It displays at once a visual language familiar to the Byzantine realm in its mosaic floor, and from the Sasanian one in its decoration in the stucco technique practiced in those lands. |
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Qasr al Hayr- Gaea, Floor Painting c. 725-740 CE Damascus, Syria Umayyad clear example of the influence of Roman myths Gaea, the mother-goddess of Roman mythology who emerges bountifully out of the Earth |
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Qasr al Hayr- Musicians and Hunting, Floor Painting c. 725-740 CE |
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Qusayr Amra-- Astronomical Ceiling 725-40 present day jordan Umayyad earliest image of the night sky painted on anything other than a flat surface. The radii emerge not from the dome's center but, accurately, from the north celestial pole. The angle of the zodiac is depicted accurately as well. The only error discernible in the surviving artwork is the counterclockwise order of the stars, which suggests the image was copied from one on a flat surface |
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Qusayr Amra- Bathers |
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Plan of City of Baghdad built by Caliph al-Mansur, 762 official residence of the Abbasid court roundness points to the fact that it was based on Persian precedents such as Firouzabad in Persia |
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Paintings from Samarra built by Caliphal-Mu’tasim and later additions, 836 - 883 Wall Paintings-- “Samarra Dancers” |
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Samarra Stucco, Bevelled, 1st Style Abassid Rule |
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Samara Stucco, Bevelled, 2nd Style Abassid Rule |
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Samarra Stucco, Bevelled, 3rd Style Abassid Rule |
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Lusterware- Dancer 11th-12th c. Middle Class Art Fatimid Reserve Technique |
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Treatise on the Fixed Stars- Virgo byal-Sufi 1009 Early scientific book illustration |
