The Mshatta Facade is the decorated part of the facade of the 8th-century Umayyad residential palace of Qasr Mshatta, one of the Desert Castles of Jordan, which is now installed in the south wing of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the permanent exhibition of the Pergamon Museum of Islamic Art dedicated to Islamic art from the 8th to the 19th centuries. This was only a relatively small section of the full length of the facade, surrounding the main entrance; most of the wall was undecorated and remains in situ.
The MshattaFacade is the decorated part of the facade of the 8th-century Umayyad residential palace of Qasr Mshatta, one of the Desert Castles of Jordan...
Qasr Mushatta (Arabic: قصر المشتى, romanized: Qasr al-Mshatta, lit. 'Winter Palace') is the ruin of an Umayyad winter palace, probably commissioned by...
motifs, but tending to geometrical abstract forms. In the very early MshattaFacade (740s), now mostly in Berlin, there are animals within the dense arabesques...
11th century, having begun in the 8th or 9th century in works like the MshattaFacade. In the process of development the plant forms became increasingly simplified...
humans and animals adorned palaces of the Umayyad era, as on the famous MshattaFacade now in Berlin. The ‘Abbasid Palaces at Samarra also contained figurative...
Gate of Miletus The Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way, Babylon The MshattaFacade The Meissner fragment from the Epic of Gilgamesh The collection goes...
Jordan, from the south Ruins of the city of Anjar, Lebanon Detail of the Mshattafacade Central vault of the Qasr Hammam As Sarah bathhouse Ruins of the Khirbat...
11th century, having begun in the 8th or 9th century in works like the MshattaFacade. Astrolabe with angular scale : The astrolabe, originally invented some...
regarded as significant influences both on early Islamic art, like the Mshattafacade and on the Insular art of the British Isles (which appears to have been...
al-Hakim), the small Aqmar Mosque (1125) with its richly-decorated street façade, and the domed Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya (1133), notable for its mihrab...
Museum of Damascus (est. 1919) Pergamon Museum (est. 1930), holding the Mshattafacade Rockefeller Archeological Museum (est. 1938), formerly the Palestine...
made of his controversy with Ernst Herzfeld over the origins of the Mshattafacade, in which Herzfeld's position was eventually proven to be correct; and...
humans and animals adorn the palaces of the Umayyad period, as on the MshattaFacade, or the desert castles of the Levant, or the harems of the Abbasid era...
Stranger as the artist's interpretation of the 8th century Islamic MshattaFaçade, accompanied by a bilingual catalogue. Kaaf’s works are found in private...
quarter-round buttresses, and half-round buttresses bisecting every other facade. It is made of rough limestone blocks set in a mud-based mortar. Decorative...
epigraphic frieze. The desert palaces in Jordan and Syria (for example, Mshatta, Qusayr 'Amra, and Hisham's Palace) served the caliphs as living quarters...
domed gateway. The palace of Qasr Mshatta and a ninth century palace at Samarra included domed throne rooms. At Mshatta, "an elaborate entrance leads through...
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