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TitleWoodwork from Egypt

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date850–900 AD

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsWood

Dimensions73 cm

LocationMusée du Louvre, Paris

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010329253

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsBirds in artSculpture, EgyptianDecoration and ornament, AbbasidIslamic wood-carving

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Chapter 2: Central Islamic Lands

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

The architecture and the architectural decoration of the central lands of the Muslim world during the first three centuries of its existence are the result of the encounter of the new Muslim faith and state with the ancient traditions of the Near East...

Author

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.15-79

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20110&redirecttoanchor=15909

Chapter subject tags:Architecture, UmayyadArchitecture, AbbasidArt, UmayyadDecoration and ornament, AbbasidIslamic illumination of books and manuscripts

7. Early Islamic Decoration: The Idea of an Arabesque

Oleg Grabar

The Formation of Islamic Art

Throughout the preceding chapters we have encountered a rather unusual problem, which can be defined by a few examples. With the Dome of the Rock and the mosque of Damascus, it was pointed out that a symbolic or iconographic meaning could be given to some of the motifs found on the mosaics covering most of their walls. But these meanings were soon lost, they did not “take” within the active living tradition of Islamic art. Furthermore, without denying an original symbolic significance, the …

Author

Oleg Grabar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.178-194

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00135.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15233&redirecttoanchor=15909

Chapter subject tags:Islamic decoration and ornamentIslamic art--HistoryIslamic architectureMshatta (Jordan)Islamic decorative arts

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