MOTIVOS GEOMÉTRICOS ISLÂMICOS NA AZULEJARIA PORTUGUESA

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Resumo

O vídeo do AzLab#64 “Islamic geometric motifs in Portuguese tiles” já está disponível, em versão editada, no canal do YouTube da Rede de Investigação em Azulejo. Se não assistiu em directo, tem agora a oportunidade de ver o vídeo. 

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ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC MOTIFS IN PORTUGUESE TILES

Session overview

The video of the AzLab#64 “Islamic geometric motifs in Portuguese tiles” is now available, in an edited version, on the ​​Azulejo Research Network YouTube channel. If you did not watch it live, watch the video now!

MOTIVOS GEOMÉTRICOS ISLÂMICOS NA AZULEJARIA PORTUGUESA

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ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC MOTIFS IN PORTUGUESE TILES

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📌 NOTA: a sessão será gravada e parcialmente disponibilizada no canal YouTube da Rede de Investigação em Azulejo. /// 📌 NOTE: this session will be recorded and partially made available on the YouTube channel of the Azulejo Research Network.

ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC MOTIFS IN PORTUGUESE TILES

24 de Fevereiro ​​de​ ​2021 ​|​ ​18h00​ [UTC] ​|​ ​plataforma Zoom [sessão em inglês]

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February 24th, 2021 | 18h00 [UTC] | via Zoom [session to be held in English]

Abstract

The actual Portuguese territory was under the rule of Muslims during more than five centuries, between the eighth-century until the thirteenth-century. As a result, it is possible to observe, even nowadays, several examples of Islamic influence in art and architecture in Portugal. This use is more noticeable in Portuguese tiling – “azulejos” than in other artistic records. There are some examples of patterns in Portugal dated from the 13th century: in the Leiria castle or Cistercian abbey at Alcobaça. The first Hispano-Moresque tiles appeared in Portugal and Spain in the XV–XVI century. The word “azulejo” became a benchmark designation as the name began to spread from Seville and overall Spain to Portugal, since the manufacturers of azulejos were of Arab origin and Muslim religion, or mudéjares. Some of them later known, in Portugal, as “mouros forros” and in Spain as “sometidos” – free from any slavery prejudices or dangers yet marginalized in ghettos (mourarias), becoming what was later to be called the mudejares.

Moreover, Mudejar became also a term to define that peculiar kind of Middle Eastern art used in the Christian courts of Iberia since, at least, the 13th-14th century. So the azulejos became one of the essential elements of Portuguese art and architecture. They are most apparent in Sintra. Those azulejos decorate the Arab room of the Sintra National Palace.

Aydan Aghabayli | Politecnico di Milano |

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MOTIVOS GEOMÉTRICOS ISLÂMICOS NA AZULEJARIA PORTUGUESA

24 de Fevereiro ​​de​ ​2021 ​|​ ​18h00​ [UTC] ​|​ ​plataforma Zoom [sessão em inglês]

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📌 NOTA 1: Uma vez agendada a sessão, cada participante receberá o link e uma password.

📌 NOTA 2: a sessão será gravada e parcialmente disponibilizada no canal YouTube da Rede de Investigação em Azulejo  

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ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC MOTIFS IN PORTUGUESE TILES

February 24th, 2021 | 18h00 [UTC] | via Zoom [session to be held in English]

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📌 NOTE 1: Once the session is scheduled, each participant will receive the link and a password.

📌NOTE 2: this session will be recorded and partially made available on the YouTube channel of the Azulejo Research Network.