ARTH 120 Lecture 1: Week Islam Lecture
25 Mar 2016
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Gold written on paper painted with lapis. Dome of the rock, jerusalem (690 ca and later) Reconstruction of the church of the holy sepulcher in jerusalem; the dome asserts islam"s dominance over christianity. Interior: columns, reusing earlier buildings to adopt and transform the classical tradition. Sacrilege expressed through geometric and vegetables: patterns, plants. Great mosque, cordoba, spain (8-10 century) 900 ce. Islam has no formal clergy so muslim"s pray directly to. Therefore, the architectural form is different: no dome rising in central space, but an infinite hallway with many columns. Mosque plan: hypostyle: detail of qbia wall. Inlayed stone, carved marble: dome in front of the mihrab mosaic, sophisticated engineering, elaborate gold. Court of the lions, alhambra, granada, spain (14th century) Muslims, surrounded, built this fantastic monument, as architecture has fantastic political power. Columns, yet not classical, and more complex: painted and gilded, dome, hall of the abnencerrajes miraculous floating building.
