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ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE - National Gallery of Art

ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS } ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS } National Gallery of Art, WashingtonISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS }Division of EducationNational Gallery of Art, WashingtonMailing address2000B South Club DriveLandover, MD 20785 National Gallery of Art, WashingtonThis packet was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Palace and Mosque: ISLAMIC Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It has been supplemented with objects not in the exhibition.

The Five Pillars of Islam The mosque Slides 1−6 SECTION 2: Science and learning Slides 7−9 ... • four color reproductions • a CD with image fi les, and a PDF version of the online feature Artistic Exchange: Europe and the Islamic World ... Christianity. Instead, the emphasis on the words and the language ...

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1 ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS } ISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS } National Gallery of Art, WashingtonISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS }Division of EducationNational Gallery of Art, WashingtonMailing address2000B South Club DriveLandover, MD 20785 National Gallery of Art, WashingtonThis packet was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Palace and Mosque: ISLAMIC Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It has been supplemented with objects not in the exhibition.

2 National Gallery of Art, Washington (July 18, 2004 February 6, 2005)Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (April 3 September 4, 2005)Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (October 22 December 11, 2005)Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England (January 14 April 16, 2006).This exhibition was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, exhibition at the National Gallery of Art is generously sponsored by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United international tour of this exhibition has been made possible by the generosity of Mohammed Jameel, the benefactor of the V&A s Jameel Gallery of ISLAMIC Art, which is dedicated to the memory of Mr.

3 Abdul Latif Jameel, the late founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Group, and his wife is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the packet was prepared by the Division of Education and produced by the Publishing Office. Designed by Catalone Design Co. Our thanks to Rosamond Mack, Barry Wood, and Richard Carter. 2004 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washingtoncover image:Architectural details from the AlhambraGrenada, Spainphotograph Ana Maria ZavalaISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS }TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONI slamic artCalligraphyArabesquesGeometric designsThe question of imagesMAPSThe extent of ISLAMIC territory c.

4 900 The extent of ISLAMIC territory c. 1500 HISTORICAL SURVEYM uhammad and the beginnings of IslamThe fi rst caliphs and the UmayyadsA golden age: The Abbasid DynastyEarly medieval dynasties in the west: Fatimids, AyyubidsEarly medieval dynasties in the east: Ghaznavids, SeljuksLate medieval period: Mongols and MamluksThe late empires: Ottomans in the westThe late empires: Safavids in the eastSLIDE DISCUSSIONSSECTION 1: Islam, the mosque, and the Qur anThe Qur anThe Five pillars of IslamThe mosqueSlides 1 6 SECTION 2.

5 Science and learningSlides 7 9 SECTION 3: Palaces and poetrySlides 10 14 SECTION 4: Arts of the object in exchangeSlides 15 20 TEACHING ACTIVITIES Social Studies: InvestigationCreative Writing: It s a MysteryArt & Math: Shapes and PatternsGLOSSARY & RESOURCES Slides and reproductions133345678910111112141515161 819242831323940515152535558 ABOUT THIS PACKETThis teaching resource consists of this booklet, which contains introductory material, slide descriptions, teaching suggestions, maps, a glossary, and resources twenty slides four color reproductions a CD with image fi les, and a PDF version of the online feature Artistic Exchange.

6 Europe and the ISLAMIC WorldISLAMIC ART ISLAMIC art is a label coined in the West in the nineteenth century. Unlike Christian art or Buddhist art, it does not describe art with a particular set of religious imagery. In fact, ISLAMIC art has few exclusively religious symbols comparable to the Christian cross. Instead, the term ISLAMIC art designates all art, religious or secular, that was produced in lands under Muslim leadership. Its makers and its patrons might be Muslim or not. In this packet we look at works that span nearly a thousand years from shortly after the foundation of Islam in the seventh century to the seventeenth century when the last two great ISLAMIC empires the Ottoman and the Safavid had reached their peak.

7 Although the defi nition of ISLAMIC art usually includes work made in Mughal India, it is beyond the scope of this packet. The works we will look at here come from as far west as Spain and as far east as , within this span of time and space many variations and styles occur. Yet, ISLAMIC art remains somehow recognizable throughout. In the West, the word art produces mental images of paintings hung on walls or large-scale sculpture, but these (although not unknown) are not the focus of ISLAMIC art.

8 Rather, the most important outlets for artistic expression in the ISLAMIC world were:-architecture-the arts of the book (calligraphy, manuscript illumination, and bookbinding)-the arts of the object (especially metalwork, ceramics, glass, and textiles) And each of these was ornamented with a particularly ISLAMIC vocabulary of surface decoration:-calligraphy-arabesques, scrolling patterns, and fl oral or plant designs-geometric designsISLAMIC ART AND CULTURE { A RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS }1 CALLIGRAPHYI slam developed in a nomadic Arab CULTURE that valued poetry and oral tradition.

9 The faith s fundamental basis is the message of God that was given to and relayed by the Prophet Muhammad, and that is preserved in the Qur an. While Christians accept Christ as God s incarnation, Muhammad does not share God s divinity. The priority of the words themselves, rather than the messenger, left Islam with little use for iconic images like those that developed in early christianity . Instead, the emphasis on the words and the language of God s message elevated the script in which they were recorded.

10 Calligraphy beautiful writing became the most revered of all the arts. It was used on buildings and art of all types to communicate the words of the Qur an or other messages but also for its decorative patterns of plant and fl oral motifs were part of the visual vocabulary ISLAMIC art inherited from its early Byzantine and Sasanian predecessors. They became so identifi ed with ISLAMIC art that in the West they came to be called arabesques. Much of the ISLAMIC world is arid and hot, and vegetation is scarce.


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