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TitlePanel with Horse Heads

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1000–1100

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsWood (teak); carved

Dimensions13 3/4 × 8 15/16 × 11/16 in. (34.9 × 22.7 × 1.7 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/446191

Accession number11.205.2

SubjectsDecorative arts, FatimidIslamic decoration and ornamentIslamic wood-carvingSculpture, EgyptianHorses in art

StatusEgypt

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Chapter 6: Central Islamic Lands

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

For reasons provided in the Prologue to Part II of this volume, the presentation of the medieval arts in central Islamic lands has been divided into two sections.

Author

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.187-265

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20116&redirecttoanchor=49819

Chapter subject tags:Architecture, FatimidDecorative arts, FatimidArchitecture, SeljukJazira (Iraq and Syria)Art, Ayyubid

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=49819

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

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