Umayyad Art and Architecture: Mosques and Minarets in Al-Andalus
Umayyad Art and Architecture in Al-Andalus
There are new minimum: Arcos geminate geminate and intersecting arcs.
Mansur in 999 built a pavilion in the eastern part of the prayer hall, ablution.
The building is fundamental to study the Umayyad art, being a regency and minimizing the debris left over from other buildings.
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Andalusian Minarets Used as Christian Towers
Occur later in Cordoba.
Late ninth century or early tenth century.
In the following two examples, both towers reproduce the same model of a square with a central pier and a circular staircase that revolves around a pier.
Torre de la Iglesia de San Juan de los Caballeros in Cordoba
Exterior: The lower body is preserved. It’s the end of the Emirate period. The minaret is made of masonry ready to rope and brand. They appear different fronts with horseshoe bays geminate are alternating voussoirs of brick and stone ashlar.
There is a frieze of blind arches with decorative function.
The auction is later.
Torre de la Iglesia del Salvador
Is embedded within the Church, in the northwest corner.
Ashlar stone with rope and stick. Vano horseshoe column subject.
Caliphal Mosques
Mosque Palatine of Madinat-al Zahara
Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz O Bab al-Mardum in Toledo
Caliphate is the most important oratory outside the mosque of Cordoba. Survival of a neighborhood mosque. Architectural sophistication.
It takes its name from its situation as it was located next door Mardum.
There is a foundation inscription on the facade which is said to be built in 999 between December and January 1000.
It is made of brick.
He financed the work an important figure in one of the leading families in Toledo, named Ahmad ibn Hadidi, and was built by Musa bin Ali.
All this appears in Kufic characters.
Once reconquered Toledo in 1086 by Alfonso VI, is converted into a church and adds a Mudejar apse, which expanded the mosque in the east.
It is very small square that has four legs in the center core, which create nine sections that are domes, arched.
In the qibla wall of the mihrab there was no housing, but had a niche embedded in the wall. It was supposed to be a huge square mihrab, but that does not exist.
This model is new in Al-Andalus but it is in Islam, as in the east of the mosque we have Iran, and the Bufatata.
In Toledo we see later the mosque of TornerÃas also has this model.
Materials:
Brick and masonry brick taped by boxes.
It becomes something specific to Toledo, so it should be a local tradition that continues.
Facades:
The one facing the street is organized into records. Arcos retouched later. Up is the original blind horseshoe arches in turn create túmidos arches.
As a decorative element is a box of bricks in esquinilla.
It creates a diamond or sebka rede. The auction consists of tiny cantilevers roll.
The facade facing the courtyard, have overlapping horseshoe arches over arches.
Above them are horseshoe arches with keystones bichrome and trefoil arches that shelter the arcades.
The addition is an apse is Christian era.