Welcome to ArtServe:

Art & Architecture
of Islam

The Home Page for rubens is here.

There is now sufficient Islamic material on this server to warrant a separate page (although everything is still available via the Home Page and its search facilities).

  1. Subject categories, mostly from museums:
    1. arms and armour in Turkey: istanbul;
    2. calligraphy in Turkey: istanbul (and here), and in konya;
    3. ceramics in egypt: cairo (and here), england, france, portugal; and turkey: iznik, konya;
    4. coins in Egypt: cairo;
    5. metalwork in Egypt: cairo england, france, germany, switzerland, turkey: istanbul and konya;
    6. museums in cairo, england, france, germany, istanbul, iznik and konya; portugal, sicily, spain,
    7. sculpture in Spain: cordoba;
    8. textiles (includes carpets) in Egypt: cairo (and here); england, france, germany, sicily, Turkey: istanbul (also here), and in konya,

  2. Surveys:
    1. Islam: Prisse d'Avennes' plates of architecture in Cairo (with a summary of his life here);
    2. I am grateful for permission to add to this site a copy of Prof James A. Harrell: Decorative Stones in the pre-Ottoman Islamic Buildings of Cairo, which users might wish to consult in combination with my images of Cairo;

  3. Architecture:
    1. Modest amounts of Islamic architecture appear in Mediterranean architecture alphabetically by site or by country or by type;
    2. Ebersolt's 1913 Les Eglises de Constantinople appears here because so many of them survived as mosques;
    3. Large collections of mosques, mausolea, and complexes of various kinds appear in:
      1. Egypt: Cairo;
      2. Turkey: Ankara, Beyshehir, Bursa, Istanbul, Konya;
      3. Try out panoramas from Syria and Cairo;

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