Ornament And Design Of The Alhambra

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic architecture
ISBN : 0486465241

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Ornament and Design of the Alhambra by Owen Jones Pdf

Amid the rugged natural beauty of southern Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range stands the Alhambra, one of the world's great architectural gems. The grand medieval palace arose in the fourteenth century, and it remains a peerless example of Moorish art that developed in a European setting, apart from direct Byzantine influence. This splendid volume ventures inside the stone walls, gates, and towers for a lavishly illustrated survey of the castle's hidden treasures—the majestic decorations within its grand halls, corridors, patios, and balconies. This unequaled collection was assembled by the influential Victorian artist and architect Owen Jones, who introduced his contemporaries to a thrilling range of interior designs from around the world. Jones' full-color plates expertly reproduce the intricate, elegant patterns of the palace's windows, ceilings, wall panels, door arches, and porticos. Unique and affordable, this volume offers a magnificent source of inspiration for art and architectural designs.

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000001613032

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The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : BML:37001102504870

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Examples of Chinese Ornament by Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Antonio Fernández Puertas,Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023416170

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The Alhambra by Antonio Fernández Puertas,Owen Jones Pdf

Based on many years of painstaking research and covering eleven centuries of medieval, modern and contemporary history, The Alhambra represents a major contribution to world scholarship. During his research for the book, the author has made some very exciting discoveries. He has, for example, resolved one of the great enigmas of Nasrid art by discovering the geometric proportional system on which the entire Alhambra architecture and decoration are based. The designs are at times so intricate that they baffle even professional mathematicians: Professor Fernaacute;ndez-Puertas has cracked the geometric code and discovered that the marvels of the Alhambra are built on a proportional system that is essentially incommensurable and not based on fixed units like metres or inches. This has involved making hundreds of analytical figures, many of which will be included in the book. Professor Fernaacute;ndez-Puertas is also the first to discover the chronological order in which the Alhambra palaces were built. He has collated much fragmentary information in order to reconstruct a picture of court life within the Alhambra and the personalities of its sultans and poet-viziers. The book thus contains the heart of three centuries of Nasrid art, as well as providing a history of the palatine city from the ninth century to the present day: the pre-Nasrid Alhambra, the Nasrid Alhambra and the Christian Alhambra. Based on many years of painstaking research and covering eleven centuries of medieval, modern and contemporary history, The Alhambra will be the most comprehensive scientific work yet issued on the subject--a work of this order is unlikely to be published again within our lifetime.

Author : Auguste Racinet
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486155463

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Racinet's Historic Ornament in Full Color by Auguste Racinet Pdf

DIVThe 19th-century French illustrator's classic reference to the decorative ornament of history's major cultures; over 2,000 royalty-free motifs in 100 beautiful full-color plates. /div

Author : Paul Germaine McCoy
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1006214798

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Instruments of Culture: Layered Representations of the Alhambra by Paul Germaine McCoy Pdf

Ornament is essential to architecture. The linear categories brought to architecture through the enlightenment have since undermined ornament's spectrum of abstract and visceral qualities. Through a non-western reading of water and ornament, the representations of the Alhambra's past reclaim their essential roles in forming the culture of Granada and the role of ornament in architecture. For students and academics in architecture, design and media studies, architectural and art history, and related fields, this book explores how the stories of sites like the Alhambra can enable the renewal of ornament through historic and contemporary tools in architectural representation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3294972

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Alhambra by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847650986

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The Alhambra by Robert Irwin Pdf

The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history. Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, the Alhambra was preserved as a monument to the triumph of Christianity. Much of what we see is the invention of later generations. Its highly sophisticated decoration is not just random but full of hidden meaning. Even its purpose - palace or theological college - is not always clear. Its influence on art, and on literature, orientalist painting and Granada cinemas, Washington Irving and Borges, has been significant. Robert Irwin enables us to understand the Alhambra's history fully. 'The Wonders of the World' is a series of books that focuses on some of the world's most famous sites or monuments. Their names will be familiar to almost everyone: they have achieved iconic stature and are loaded with mythological baggage. These monuments have been the subject of many books over the centuries, but our aim, through the skill and stature of the writers, is to get something much more enlightening, stimulating, even controversial, than straightforward histories or guides.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448582

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Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe by Anonim Pdf

Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe offers a critical examination of the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. Taking selected case studies as a starting point, the volume challenges prevalent readings of interconnected cultural and artistic phenomena.

Author : Olga Bush
Publisher : EUP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 147448090X

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Reframing the Alhambra by Olga Bush Pdf

The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra âe" the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city âe" were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of all archival material. This book resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials. This reframing enables the reconstruction of the underlying, integrated aesthetic, focusing on the harmonious interrelationship between diverse artistic media âe"architecture, poetry and textiles âe" in the experience of the beholder, resulting in a new understanding of the Alhambra.

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363353

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The Topkapi Scroll by Gülru Necipoğlu Pdf

Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.

Author : Albert Frederick Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Alhambra
ISBN : UOM:39015010975186

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The Alhambra by Albert Frederick Calvert Pdf

Author : T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300064551

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Ornament by T. L. J. Howard,Michael Snodin,Maurice Howard Pdf

In a wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, the authors begin by tracing the ways ornament has been used over the last five centuries, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values it has represented. They examine how architecture set the agenda for ornament in the Renaissance, and how printed images carried a common vocabulary of ornament throughout the Western world. They survey the personal side of ornament, both in dress and in the domestic interior - a private expression of the self and a public statement of social and cultural status. They look at ornament in the public domain - from the lavish decoration and symbolism of a town pageant to the logos of today's corporate industry - and show how the ever-evolving role of ornament is to invent and embody the collective spirit of communities at work and at leisure. They conclude by discussing how the Western tradition of ornament has responded to and absorbed 'exotic' African and Asian motifs: Moresque motifs of the Near East and such familiar designs as the 'Paisley' and Willow" patterns.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:73799409

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The Workshop by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. and G. Audsley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486155289

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Designs and Patterns from Historic Ornament by W. and G. Audsley Pdf

This well-known book was prepared a century ago by two British architects, and its reputation has grown steadily since. The Audsleys' rendering of designs from a wide variety of sources are national traditions, and their excellent sense of space and proportion and their straightforward interpretations of these ornaments have made this collection among the most valuable of its kind. The 60 plates contain over 250 large-scale line drawings, mostly executed by the authors. The designs and patterns shown are derived from architectural decorative motifs, textile designs, patterns from ceramics, etc. A brief text specifies sources for many of the designs, and captions identify national origin and often the original color schemes. The illustrations include ancient Egyptian patterns from painted tomb ceilings, borders from Greek vases, Celtic designs, Japanese ornaments, Moorish decorations, eleventh-century Italian textile designs, and architectural elements from the cathedral of Notre-Dame and other buildings. This partial list of contents gives an idea of the many styles of design reproduced in the book, and the applications to which the designs can be put. Commercial artists, architects, crafters, designers, scene designers, and others will find these pages a rich source of decorative designs.