ARHITEKTURA I UMJETNOST AL-ANDALUSA
THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE ART OF AL-ANDALUS

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about the architecture and arts Al-Andalus where two streams of influences have merged: Syrian-emevian and Iraqi-abbasidian, which have determined and signified their starting development, and, soon, parallel with them, enabled the start and development of many heterogeneous autochthonous shapes. On the bases of this specific treasury of shape there emerged the andalusi architecture and art, which acts and ripen with monumental mosques In Cordoba, Seville and Almeria, and live to see its full luxury in court palaces of Medinat Al-Zahra, al-Jafaria and Alhambra. The shining earthenware, artistic work in the metal, objects from the ivory, precious fabrics, calligraphy and illumination of hand-written books have also a visible and well recognizable andalusi seal.

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