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laquimeralinda:

Morning walk!

purplefigtree:

Lampas-weave silk, Spain, 14th century.

The pattern, which appears continuous, has been adapted to the system of ‘repeats’ needed to produce a textile. Each design unit contains an eight-pointed star, a quatrefoil
and two roundels. The compartments they form are filled with a variety of smaller motifs, from interlace patterns in green or blue to tiny knots and fleurs-de-lis.

Textiles with geometrical interlace of this type were mainly produced in southern Spain and North Africa. This example was probably made in south-west Spain in the 14th century, perhaps in Granada, which was the capital of the Muslim Nasrid dynasty from about 1232 to 1492.

Such silks were not only used in Spain. They seem also to have been popular in Italy. This piece formed part of a hanging behind a large wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Florence. It was bought there in the 19th century. (V&A)

fyeahmoorishiberia:

Picture: Three stages in the life of the Giralda: The left tower is the Almohad minaret (1198), with its four gilded ‘apples’; the right tower, under Christian control (1400), is topped with a bell; the center tower (1568) features the renaissance belfry of Hernan Ruiz.

The rule of the Berber Almoravids from Morocco, from the late 11th to mid-12th centuries, yielded few notable buildings in Spain, but the second wave of Moroccan Berbers to conquer Al-Andalus, the Almohads, constructed huge Friday mosques in the main cities of their empire, among them Seville. The design of the mosques was simple and purist, with large prayer halls conforming to the T-plan of the Cördoba Mezquita, but the Almohads introduced some important and beautiful decorative innovations. The bays where the naves meet the qibla wall were surmounted by cupolas or stucco muqarnas (stalactite or honeycomb vaulting composed of hundreds or thousands of tiny cells or niches). On walls, large brick panels with designs of interwoven lozenges were created.

From the late 12th Century, tall, Square, richly decorated minarets started to appear. The Giralda, the minaret of the Seville mosque, is the masterpiece of surviving Almohad buildings in Spain, with its beautiful brick panels. The Seville mosque’s prayer hall was demolished in the 15th Century to make way for the city’s cathedral, but its ablutions courtyard, Patio de los Naranjos , and its northern gate, the handsome Puerta del Perdön, survive.

Islamic Architecture of Andalusia

fyeahmoorishiberia:

Fifteenth-century map by Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis of the coastline of Andalusia and the city of Granada.

nevver:

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“esprit libre”: daria werbowy for vogue paris may 2009 photographed by ben hassett