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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Column Capital

Column Capital

c. 960–76
Overall: 26 x 37 x 28.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Location: 116 Islamic

Did You Know?

In the mid-1800s the ruins of Madinat al-Zahra were rediscovered and became the source of great fascination as people imagined a palace like that in the stories of One Thousand and One Nights.

Description

This capital comes from the palatial city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba (Spain) which was begun by caliph Abd al-Rahman III (r. 912–61) around 936. Large parts of the Iberian Peninsula were then under Islamic rule and experienced a cultural flowering. The city, destroyed already in 1010, was the most magnificent palace complex in Europe at the time.
  • -2021
    (Sam Fogg, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2021-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Strong, Meghan E. “Art of the Islamic World.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 28-30. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 30.
  • Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=Column Capital|url=false|author=|year=c. 960–76|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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