Este excelente manual recoge los primeros tesoros del arte y arquitectura musulmanes. Estudia las obras maestras ?mezquitas y minaretes, trabajos en oro, plata, vidrio y cerámica, marfil, tejidos y manuscritos decorados? creadas en los centros cuyo...
Este libro no es una historia arqueológica sobre la Alhambra ni una guía turística. Lo que ha pretendido el autor, Oleg Grabar, es explicar la Alhambra dentro de la historia: sugerir las razones de que se construyera este particular...
Presents the story of the Dome of the Rock, the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, from the first fateful decades of its creation to its engulfment in the clashes of the Crusades and the Christianization of Jerusalem, to its mode...
The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory....
This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India.