Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus
تاريخ الاضافة
07/12/2020
نوع المحتوى
Article
Category
Other
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Islamic Culture
الكاتب
FRANCISCO PRADO-VILAR
Year of Publication
1997
الوصف
In religious environments, for instance the mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and the Umayyad Great Mosque of Damascus, vegetal motifs have been interpreted as referring to the flora of paradise, the fertility ever-present in the proximity of God.
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