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From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola
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Anna McSweeney

From Granada to Berlin

The Alhambra Cupola

Anna McSweeney

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English
DruckVerlag Kettler
01 March 2021
Architectural structure & design; Religious buildings
Series: CAHIM - Connecting Art Histories in the Museum
This book is the story of an extraordinary survivor from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain: the Alhambra cupola, now in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. The cupola, a ceiling crafted from carved and painted wood, was made to crown an exquisite mirador in one of the earliest palace buildings of the Alhambra. The book is the cupola's biography from its medieval construction to its imminent redisplay in Berlin. It traces the long history of the Alhambra through the prism of the cupola, from the Muslim craftsmen who built it, to its adaptation by the Christian conquerors after the fall of Granada in 1492, to its creation as a heritage site.

The cupola was sketched by artists from across Europe, before it was dismantled by a German financier and taken to Berlin in the 19th century. It witnessed the dramatic events of the 20th century in Germany and was eventually bought by the Museum in 1978. In recent decades, the new visibility of the cupola to the wider public has prompted questions about the object and its movement from Granada to Berlin. Its removal from the Alhambra and the complex reasons behind this loss are central to this biography. Setting the cupola within the wider context of Islamic heritage, it considers the role of collecting practices in the transformation of living monuments into heritage sites in the 20th century. This book presents a focused study of this unique object that cuts across academic disciplines and geographic boundaries to reveal a new perspective on the legacy of Islamic art in Europe and its continuing relevance today.

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Comprehensive biography of the Alhambra cupola .

Includes extensive new research .

Part of the series CAHIM – Connecting Art Histories in the Museum

67 colour and 11 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   DruckVerlag Kettler
Country of Publication:   Germany
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 170mm, 
Weight:   644g
ISBN:   9783862068319
ISBN 10:   3862068315
Series:   CAHIM - Connecting Art Histories in the Museum
Pages:   196
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

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