Hispano-Moresque style

(noun)

A style of Islamic pottery created in Al-Andaluz, or Muslim Spain, which continued to be produced under Christian rule in styles that blended Islamic and European elements.

Related Terms

  • glaze
  • Lusterware
  • ceramics

Examples of Hispano-Moresque style in the following topics:

  • Islamic Ceramics

    • Hispano-Moresque examples were exported to Italy, inspiring the earliest Italian examples, from 15th century Florence.
    • The Hispano-Moresque style emerged in Al-Andaluz, or Muslim Spain, in the 8th century, under Egyptian influence.
    • The Hispano-Moresque style mixed Islamic and European elements in its designs and was exported to neighboring European countries.
    • The style introduced two ceramic techniques to Europe: glazing with an opaque white tin-glaze and painting in metallic lusters.
  • Beatus Manuscripts

    • However, the surviving twenty-six of these manuscripts are lavishly decorated in the Mozarabic, Romanesque, or Gothic style of illumination.
    • Mozarabic art features a combination of (Hispano) Visigothic and Islamic art styles, as in the Beatus manuscripts, which combine Insular art illumination forms with Arabic-influenced geometric designs .
  • Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • Due to important economic and political links between Spain and the Netherlands (which then included present-day Holland and Belgium) from the mid-fifteenth century onwards, the early Renaissance in Spain was heavily influenced by Netherlandish painting, leading to the identification of a Hispano-Netherlandish school of painters.
    • Overall the Renaissance and subsequent Mannerist styles are hard to categorize in Spain, due to the mix of Netherlandish and Italian influences, and regional variations.
    • From the Renaissance style, he also frequently used sfumato modeling, and simple compositions but combined them with Netherlandish-style precision of details.
    • His mature style is characterized by a tendency to dramatize rather than to describe.
    • El Greco's most famous painting, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1586-88) blends his signature style with the classical revival of the Renaissance and medieval renderings of the body.
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