COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0000140
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aahi0000140
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Work Title (display):
Aqsa Mosque
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1035
Work Dates type:
restoration
Image Date (display):
2008-01-28
Work Creator (display):
unknown Fatimid
Work Creator gender:
unknown
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unknown
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
Refers to the art and culture associated with the Islamic Berber dynasty of this name that ruled in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) from 909 to 972 and in Egypt from 969 to 1171. The Fatimids, of the Shi'a sect, traced their ancestry back to Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad. The Fatimids had many rivals to contend with as well as the challenge of the Crusaders. Fatimid art is noteworthy for its internationalism: it bridges the east and west of the Islamic world and it was open to the Hellenic heritage of the Mediterranean and to some ideas from Christian powers to the north. Although Fatimid artists continued to use materials and techniques developed by the Tulunids, the abstraction favored by the Tulunids was replaced by an interest in exploring the tradition of figurative representation inherited from Iraq. Painting, book illustration, wood and ivory carving, and glass, ceramic and textile design bear figurative decoration unparalleled in contemporary Islamic art. An interest in naturalism is also evident. The iconography of Fatimid art is often indebted to Abbasid court art. Just as figural traditions were being developed, so were designs based on infinite systems of linear pattern; this form of ornamentation became one of the most successful forms of abstract Islamic art. Figural art was inappropriate for religious buildings, which were instead decorated with a vigorous new style of stone carving typically featuring elegant inscriptions in a distinctive form of kufic script elaborated with foliate and floral elements. A conch shell motif known from late antiquity was popular with the Fatimids, as seen on the façade of the mosque of al-Akmar. Nothing has survived of the two Fatimid palaces that stood in the center of Cairo but accounts of them attest to their magnificence.
Work Style Period:
Umayyad
work_styleperiod
Umayyad
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
mosques
subject
mosques
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Islam
subject
Islam
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
mosques
work_type
mosques
Work Worktype
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Work Worktype:
architecture (object genre)
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architecture (object genre)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
architecture
work_category__ucbaahvrc_classification_
architecture
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Jerusalem, Israel
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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