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ISLAMIC ART
650 CE to the present
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Key ideas about Islamic art:• Mosque = main building for worship• Mosque directs attention to Mecca (through a MIHRAB (a
niche)• Calligraphy = most prized art form – appears in most
artwork (based on Arabic script, varies in form based on time and place).
• Calligraphy = highest form of art because it was used to transmit the texts revealed from God to Muhammad. Calligraphers = most respected artists
• Calligraphy + arabesques + tessellations• Persian manuscripts = great examples of Islamic figural art
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Historical Background:
• Prophet Mohammed- born in Arabia in 570 CE, at height of Byzantine Empire.
• Was wealthy, had spiritual awakening in his early middle age, received the word of God (Quran) from the angel Gabriel.
• Begins preaching in Mecca, criticizing the wealthiest residents who get rich at the expense of others
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• Mohammed is forced to flee from Mecca (flight known as the Hegira), goes to Medina, where his preaching gathers followers.
• Becomes both a spiritual and military leader, gathers his forces, returns to conquer Mecca in the first Holy War, in the name of Allah.
• He preaches submission to God, equality of all before God, strict monotheism, obedience to God's requirements:
1. prayers facing Mecca 5x/day, 2. fasting during Ramadan, 3. giving alms to the poor, 4. pilgrimage to Mecca (if possible) once during lifetime following dietary
restrictions. • Islam becomes the fastest-growing religion in world
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• By 750 CE, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Spain, India, and Central Asia were converter to Islam or under the control of Islamic dynasties.
• Vast empire split in two after the Mongols sacked Baghdad (Islamic capital) EAST: South and Central Asia, Iran, and TurkeyWEST: Near East and Arabic peninsula, North Africa, parts of Sicily and Spain
Two principal divisions of Islam: SHIITE and SUNNI – each based on a differing claim of leadership after Mohammad’s death (so there is great diversity of Islamic artistic traditions)
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• Major monuments/art – the result of rulers and the social elite (patrons)
• Textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and other objects were produced for the art market
And a few more things about calligraphy:• Most calligraphers remained anonymous (out of respect
to God… modesty!)• But by 14th and 15th centuries, some sign their name• Even royalty did calligraphy sometimes – raised art form
to new heights • Apprenticeships teaches young calligraphers how to
write, make ink, sit while writing (good posture!), etc.
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Differences with Christian Sacred Spaces
• Decorative scheme is largely abstract rather than narrative– Calligraphy– Arabesques– Tesselations
• Extensive use of text with Koranic verses inlaid into decorative scheme
• Profuse decoration Outside as well as Inside• Uses Ogival, or pointed arches rather than
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• Tessellations (repetition of geometric designs) – demonstrate the Islamic belief that there is unity in multiplicity
• All of these designs were achieved with only a straightedge and a compass.
• Islamic mathematicians were thinkers of the highest order
• Geometric elements reinforce their idea that the universe is based on logic and clear design.
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JALI: perforated ornamental stone screens (Islamic specialty)
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Islamic calligraphy with arabesque designs
Favorite arabesque motifs include acanthus and split leaves, scrolling vines, spirals, wheels, and zigzags
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• Arabic alphabet has 28 letters from 17 different shapes – written from right to left
• Arabic numerals are written from left to right, however• KUFIC is used for official texts – traditional for the Koran
• Calligraphy comes in a number of scripts, including KUFIC
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And here’s some vocab….
• Arabesque: a flowing, intricate, and symmetrical pattern deriving from floral motifs
• Calligraphy: decorative or beautiful handwriting• Jali: perforated ornamental stone screens in Islamic art• Koran: the Islamic sacred text, dictated to the Prophet
Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel• Kufic: a highly ornamental Islamic script• Mecca, Medina: Islamic holy cities; Mecca is the birthplace
of Muhammad and the city all Muslims turn to in prayer; Medina is where Muhammad was first accepted as the Prophet, and where his tomb is located
• Mihrab: a central niche in a mosque, which indicates the direction to Mecca
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• Minaret: a tall, slender column used to call people to prayer
• Minbar: a pulpit from which sermons are given• Mosque: a Muslim house of worship• Muezzin: an Islamic official who calls people to prayer
traditionally from a minaret• Muhammad: the Prophet whose revelations and
teachings form the foundations of Islam• Muqarna: a honeycomb-like decoration often applied in
Islamic buildings to domes, niches, capitals, or vaults. The surface resembles intricate stalactites.
• Qiblah: the direction toward Mecca which Muslims face in prayer
• Tessellation: decoration using polygonal shapes with no gaps
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Let’s look at some major works of Islamic architecture…
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Islamic Architecture• Built to accommodate as many worshippers as
possible in prostrate position: Communal Prayer• No elaborate ritual with a center of visual
attention (like an altar)• Emphasizes horizontality as opposed to verticality
(Christian Churches). • Roofed part held up by a combination of
arches/columns called a HYPOSTYLE hall.• Worshipers face Mecca. Wall opposite entrance
faces Mecca (quibla).• QUIBLA (the direction toward Mecca)usually
marked by a niche (often domed) called a MIHRAB
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Features and Major Architectural Elements of a Mosque
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Narthex
Nave
Apse
Aisle
Arcade supported by a colonnadeClerestory
Altar
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Maqsura
Quibla
Mihrab
Minaret
Sahn
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DOME OF THE ROCK, 687-691 CE, Jerusalem, Israel
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Dome of the Rock (c. 687) San Vitale (c. 526)
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It’s a domed wood octagon
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•Built on the reputed site of the Temple of Solomon and includes remnants•Sacred rock where Adam was buried, Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac, Muhammad ascended to heaven, and Temple of Jerusalem was located! Wow! This place is significant for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. •First work of Islamic architecture•built by Caliph Abd al-Malik •Intended function is debated, but it has historically functioned (and continues to serve) not as a mosque, but as a shrine•One of the most important sites of pilgrimage for Muslims worldwideDome of the Rock, Jerusalem
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In Islamic art, blue, the color of the sky, suggests infinity, while gold represents the color of the knowledge of God. The shape of the dome itself is a powerful symbol of the soaring ascent to heaven, its circle representing the wholeness and balance essential to the Muslim faith.
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• Islamic interaction with Byzantine artistic and architectural traditions
• Dome follows the Byzantine model of churches
• Mosaics inside are similar to Byzantine mosaics – technique and motifs
• Quranic inscriptions promote virtues of Islamic faith, but architecture and decoration are Byzantine/Christian tradition- recombined and reinterpreted to create an overall message
Extensive decoration from a variety of periods, including mosaics, painted wood, marble, multi-colored tiles, carpets, and carved stone, covers most of the exterior and interior of the building.
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• 1,280 square meters of elaborate mosaics cover walls that enshrine the mystical rock under the dome
• Intricate patterns and geometric shapes of mosaics replace figurative art (against Muslim belief to represent Allah in any figurative form)
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THE rock, in Dome of the Rock
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• Columns are from Roman monuments
• No religious imagery, but floral designs and animal motifs are ok
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Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain (8th-10th centuries)
A medieval Islamic mosque- converted into a Catholic Christian cathedral--- Spanish Muslims have lobbied to Catholic Church to allow them to pray in the cathedral….but keep getting rejected
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• Double-arched columns, alternating bands of color• Double arches (new!) permit higher ceiling • Light and airy interior• Horseshoe-shaped arches• Columns are SPOLIA from ancient Roman structures.
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Hypostyle mosque: no central focus, no congregational worshipHYPOSTYLE = roof supported by columns
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Original wood ceiling was replaced by vaulting
• Columns made of jasper, onyx, marble, and granite • Columns represent endless number of worshippers• Built to accommodate as many worshippers as possible in
prostrate position (communal prayer)• Columns have capitals but not bases
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Complex dome over MIHRAB with elaborate squinches (MIHRAB: a central niche in a mosque, which indicates the direction to Mecca)
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Mihrab from the Great Mosque at Cordoba, Spain-marks the QIBLAH (direction) to Mecca
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Torah Niche Menorah, Temple, Akeidah - fresco (3rd CE)Dura Europos Synagogue
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Click here to see what Rick Steves has to say about the history of Cordoba's Mosque…
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Frieze from Mshatta, Jordan. 740-750 CE, limestoneGo see it in Berlin!
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• From a palace in Jordan• Richly carved stone walls 16-
feet high- high walls kept out bandits and gave privacy to occupants
• Triangle pattern, rosettes placed in each triangle
• Intricate design with vegetation and animals- birds, vines and animals on secular side of palace. Mosque side has no animal patterns
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•Fortified palace•Note the sculpted façade which employs intricate plant forms and animals•Employs an arabesque pattern –Islamic fascination with geometric interlacing which often dominates interior decoration•Destroyed by Mongols in 1258
The remains of Mshatta Palace
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• Combinations of lotuses and pinecones• Densely carved with interwoven vines and groups of animals (griffins, lions, oxen)• Mythical motifs- cupid bending over a basket of grapes, dig-bird and human-
headed lion to express power and wisdom• Lions drinking from urn, out of which grows the “Tree of Life” (Tree of Life is a
Persian influence- Persian artists contributed to this carving)
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Palace of the Lions, Alhambra (in Granada, Spain) 1354-1391
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Oooo, look how pretty it is at night!
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• Alhambra was the Palace of the Nasrid sultans of Southern Spain
• Light, airy interiors• 16 windows at top of hall, light
dissolves into a honeycomb of stalactites that dangle from ceiling
• Abstract patterns, abstract forms• 5,000 MUQARNAS refract light (the
honeycomb-like decoration)
• Highly sophisticated and refined interior
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MUQUARNAS on ceiling totally look like stalactites!
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MUQARNAS up close
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Let's go look inside the Alhambra (click here)
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Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, 1568-1575(16th century)Edirne, Turkey
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• Thin, soaring minarets
• Minarets- from which the call to prayer is recited to the faithful
• Inspired by Hagia Sophia, but centrally planned building
• Part of a complex including a hospital, school, library, etc.
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• Have a base• Have an internal staircase• Have a gallery (at top) from which MUEZZINS call
people to prayer• Gallery is often covered by canopies to protect
the muezzins from the weather
A word about MINARETS…
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Many small windows light interior well
Decorative mosaics and tile work
Octagonal interior, with 8 pillars resting on a square set of walls
Open, airy interior contrasts with conventional mosques that have partitioned interiors
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Taj Mahal 1632-1648. Agra, India
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The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.
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• Taj Mahal = “Crown Palace”• Named for Mumtaz Mahal, deceased wife of Shah Jahan
(died while giving birth to her 14th child, OMG!)• Built to serve as Mumtaz Mahal’s tomb. Shah Jahan was
buried there next to her after his death.• Symmetrical harmony of design. Like a mirror image on
each side!• One large arch flanked by two smaller arches (typical Islamic)
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Emperor Shah Jahan himself described the Taj in these words:
Should guilty seek asylum here,Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,All his past sins are to be washed away.The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.In this world this edifice has been made;To display thereby the creator's glory.
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Square plan with chamfered corners (at 45-degree angles)
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• Onion-shaped dome rises gracefully from the square base of the façade
• Small kiosks around dome lessen its severity
• Intricate floral and geometric inlays
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• Minarets act like a picture frame, directing our views and sheltering the monument
• Grounds represent a vast funerary garden- the gardens found in heaven in the Islamic tradition
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Taj Mahal interior
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Be sure to watch the Taj Mahal documentary I put on the blog!!!
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PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS• Give a visual image to a literary plot – makes
text more enjoyable and easier to understand. • Influences from China (Asiatic appearance of
figures, Chinese rocks and clouds, dragons, chrysanthemums)• Persian manuscript paintings are often called
“miniatures”• Had a big influence on Mughal manuscripts in
India • Marriage of text and calligraphy
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Book Illumination• Illustrated books commissioned in
large workshops• produced copies of famous literary
works, histories, and Qur’ans• Collaborative between calligraphers
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• Paper mill (factory) established in Baghdad.
• Paper was invented in China and then Muslims learned how it was made. (Actually Chinese papermakers were taken prisoner and forced to teach their captors how to make paper)
• Soon paper replaced parchment (animal skin) and papyrus.
• The development of paper made it possible for a great many people to get books and learn from them. This was an important advance which affected education and scholarship.
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Persian manuscript showing the battles of Alexander the Great
• Shadowless world• Figures sumptuously dressed• Richly decorated • Intricate details• Flat planes• Marriage of text and
calligraphy- words written with precision in spaces reserved for them
• In this scene, the calligraphy at the top and bottom explain the story, and the warlike scene is conveyed as decorative and fanciful
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The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq; leaf from a copy of the Bustan of Sacdi, dated 1514. From Bukhara, Uzbekistan. In The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Mohammed Received by the Four Angels; Persia, 1436
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Bahram Gur in the Green Pavilion1481
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The Caliph Harun Al-Rashid Visits the Turkish BathBy: Kamal al-Din BihzadInk and pigments on paper, 1494
• Asymmetrical
composition depends on balanced placement of colors and architectural ornaments within each section
• Caliph = community leader
• Groomed by barber, attendants bring water for his bath
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The Portrait of Khusrau Shown to Shirin1494Ink, pigments, and gold on paper• From an illustrated copy of the Khamsa• Romantic scene in a landscape setting• Princess Shirin sees a portrait of Khusrau and falls
in love with him (aww)• Various points of view at once (typical) –frontal
and from above simultaneously• Doll-like figures stand out (brilliant colors)