Andalusian tilework. The art of ceramic decoration PDF
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.., .C., G1 C 0 u E ·:e:s ... G1 a. Andalusian tilework THE ART OF CERAMIC DECORATION PHOTOGRAPHS: CARLOS GIORDANO RODRiGUEZ AND NICOLAS PALMISANO SOSA dosde Contents Origin.sand THE 14TH TO 15TH CENTURIES THE 15TH TO 16TH CENTURIES evolution Mudejartilework Isabelline and page 006 pageo36 Renaissancetilework pageoso THE 16TH TO 17TH CENTURIES THE17THT018THCENTURIES THE 19THTO 20TH CENTURIES THE 20TH TO 21STCENTURIES Painted tilework Baroque tilework Historicist tilework Modernist and page 074 page 102 page 130 Costumbrist tilework page150 ANDALUSIAN TILEWORK Origins and Standing out amongst the numerous artistic traditions that have taken root in Andalusia throughout history are its stunning azulejos. the vitrified ceramic tiles used to adorn walls and floors that constitute one of the main signs of identity in evolution Andalusian art and architecture. Distinguished for combining aesthetics and func tionality, this type of decoration has its most distant origins in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, civilizations to which the first known glazed bricks are attributed. The application of glazed ceramic work on architectonic surfaces was taken up and continued by the Persian Empire, and it received its definitive impulse with the blossoming oflslamic culture. In fact, the actual word azulejo is believed to derive from the Arab term az-zylayj which means "small brick". The Muslims not only rapidly assimilated pottery making skills from the regions of the Middle East and North Africa that came under their dominion from the seventh century, but they also promoted the development of new techniques that were able to exploit the full artistic potential of vitrified ceramic work, in an attempt to emulate Greco-Roman and Byzantine mosaic work. The Islamic world's latest innovations started to take hold in Andalusia due to the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Saints Justa eighth century, though the use of tilework really blossomed during the Nasrid peri and Rufina The patrons of the cer od, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. It was then that the foundations amist union appear on were laid for an artistic technique that would develop even further with the passage a side of the 17th centu of time in order to maintain its validity, incorporating various stylistic influences ry altar in Seville's Fine Arts Museum. and technological advances. 006
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