Forms of art
Moorish style, called Mudejar art is an artistic style developed in the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula but includes influences, elements or materials of Hispano-Muslim style. It is a phenomenon exclusively Hispanic, held between centuries XII and XVI, which involves combining artistic trends Christian (Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance) and the Muslim era.
On the one hand, some historians consider this style as a epigone Islamic art, on the other hand, is seen as representing a period of Christian art decorative Islamic arise, given that those who implement it are mudejars or Moors. The latter population is Muslim and Arab culture remained within the Christian kingdoms from the Reconquista and which, on payment of tribute, were allowed religious habits and maintaining their legal status. Despite these considerations, we can say that art can not be claimed Mudejar art history neither Muslim nor the Christian-Western art. It is neither more nor less than artistic expression of medieval Spanish society in which both live together Muslim, Christian and Hebrew.
Style is not compact, but distinct characteristics from region to region, from which states toledan mudejar, leon, aragon and andalusia.
Iberian Peninsula from the territory expanded to the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
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January 25, 2012 6:52 pm
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