المؤلف
Unknown
تاريخ النشر
950
مكان النشر
Madinat al-Zahra (made) -
الموضوع
Architecture
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 33.5cm, Width: 33cm, Depth: 33cm, Weight: 54.5kg
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
A.10-1922
رقم السجل
A.10-1922
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
950
ملاحظات
This capital would have formed the head or top part of a column. It comes from the palace complex of Madinat al-Zahra near Córdoba in southern Spain. The complex was founded in 936 by a member of the Umayyad dynasty of Spain. It shows the powerful influence of the architecture of classical antiquity on early Islamic art. The capital has a âcompositeâ form that is entirely Roman, except for the inscription in Arabic along the top edge. The form and decoration of column capitals in Islamic Spain soon evolved away from their classical roots. They developed much more recognisably Islamic characteristics including increasingly abstract vegetal motifs.
نص عينة
Note Inscribed in Arabic along top edge.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Carved marble Marble Carving
Fiziksel açıklama
Marble capital with part of a Kufic inscription.
Üslup
Spanish-Umayyad
