HISTORY 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Umayyad Mosque, Jama Masjid
31 Oct 2018
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Provided muslims with places that helped them live their lives. Allowed abbasids to demonstrate control of resources. Ability to build on a grand scale. Implication: god must be on their side. Some structures were private but the public could visit. Then samarra, acted as capital for 80-90 years before abbasids returned to. One of the largest cities at the time, later abandoned. Where you go to pray on friday. On day of judgement, artist will be asked to breathe life into creations. Since only god can create and also breathe life, Artist painted humans and animals in a schematic (didn"t draw actual people, avoided realism) matter, not lifelike. You don"t want it to be too realistic. Represent holy figures with veils in front of their faces. Not just composition of text but rather presentation of text. Disregard for the cost of paper, a lot of white space. Hard to do good detail work well.
