Arabesque
Arabesque is an artistic decoration. It uses "surface decorations based on... interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines.[1] Another definition is "Foliate ornament, used in the Islamic world, typically using leaves... combined with spiralling stems".[2]
Arabesques are usually of a single design which can be 'tiled' or repeated as many times as desired.[3]
The term "arabesque" is used as a technical term by art historians for decoration in Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards. Note that Islamic geometric patterns are a different style from arabesques.
Arabesque Media
- Turquoise epigraphic ornament MBA Lyon A1969-333.jpg
Part of a 15th-century ceramic panel from Samarkand (Uzbekistan) with white calligraphy on a blue arabesque background
- Egitto, cairo, placca decorativa in avorio, XI sec - Louvre - OA 6265-1.jpg
Arabesque pattern behind hunters on ivory plaque, 11th–12th century, Egypt
- Alhambra (038).jpg
Three modes: arabesques, geometric patterns, and calligraphy used together in the Court of the Myrtles of Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
- "Music" MET ra52.118.R.jpg
The French sense of arabesque: a Savonnerie carpet in the Louis XIV style, c.1685–1697, wool, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- Царское-село,-Екатерининский-дворец.jpg
The "Arabesque Room" in the Catherine Palace, with neoclassical grotesque decoration
- Damasco moschea degli OmayyadiHPIM3241.JPG
Mosaics on the Treasury Dome of the Great Mosque of Damascus, 789, still in essentially Byzantine style
- Mschatta-Fassade (Pergamonmuseum).jpg
Palace facade from Mshatta in Jordan, c.740, now in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin)
- Panel with Horse Heads MET DP170363.jpg
Panel with horse heads, 11th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
References
- ↑ Fleming, John & Honour, Hugh 1977 (1989). Dictionary of the decorative arts. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-670-82047-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Rawson, Jessica 1984. Chinese ornament: the lotus and the dragon. British Museum Publications, p236. ISBN 0-7141-1431-6
- ↑ Robinson, Francis 1996 (2002). The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-66993-1.
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