Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "al Andalus"
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The Decorative Wooden Ceilings of Nasrid Granada and the Alhambra
(2024)This article examines the role of Nasrid Granada in the development and spread of decorative wooden ceilings or artesonados in the late medieval and early modern periods. It argues that it was in the intensive building ... -
An Early Muqarnas Plaster Ceiling in the Alhambra Palace, Granada
(Edinburgh University Press, 2025)This case study focuses on one of the earliest plaster muqarnas ceilings in the Alhambra. It is found in the mirador of the Partal, a building also known as the Torre de las Damas, that was built in the first decade of ... -
Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
(2015)The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It ...
