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For Splendors, local architect Louis Pounders recreated a sultan's palace, complete with the asymmetric arrangement of rooms one would find in a structure completed over several generations. "There is a sense of mystery about ((Turkish)) architecture," says Pounders. "I tried to breathe that into the design." Banded arches spring...
"Al-Andalus," which runs through Sept. 27, is the first large-scale attempt to supply American art lovers with a sense of this vanished and brilliant culture. Given the ignorant animus against the Arab world in America, it is a valuable show, and its massive catalog is the best introduction...
Adaptation lay at the cultural heart of Islamic Spain. It was not always benign; like the Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive...
Hispano-Islamic culture was an extraordinary hybrid, built over the vestiges of Rome, mingling Western with Middle Eastern forms. This tension and merging shows itself everywhere in the remnants of Islamic Spain. The architects of ^ the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, for instance, designed its sublime forest...
In the architectural fragments included in this show -- capitals and bases from the 10th century caliphal period, for instance -- one sees the forms of Roman antiquity dissolving into the Islamic taste for allover pattern; eaten away by deep carving, a recognizably Ionic capital turns into a web of exquisite stone...