id: 150740 accession number: 1982.16.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.16.b updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:17.383000 Alhambra Palace Silk Curtain, mid-1300s. Spain, Granada, Nasrid period. Silk; lampas weave; overall: 438.2 x 271.8 cm (172 1/2 x 107 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1982.16.b title: Alhambra Palace Silk Curtain title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid-1300s creation date earliest: 1345 creation date latest: 1355 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, Granada, Nasrid period technique: silk; lampas weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 438.2 x 271.8 cm (172 1/2 x 107 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: the bold knotted Kufic inscription in the top and bottom borders of the side panels repeats the Arabic word "felicity." Within the arches forming a frieze in the top border is a Kufic inscription "good fortune" and a Naskhi inscription repeating trhe motto of the Nasrid dynasty, "There is no conqueror but God." In the borders of the three large ornamental rectangles on each side panel is the Naskhi inscription "Dominion belongs to God alone." On the central panel the inscriptions in the borders repeat the phrase, "Majestry is God's," while the Nasrid motto, "There is no conqueror but God" and, above, "Blessing," are inscribed in the arabesque ogives. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900 opening date: 2013-05-14T04:00:00 Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Miguel Rodriguez-Acosta, Granada, Spain, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This is one of two of the largest, most complete, and most ornate curtains to survive from the 1300s when it presumably hung in the royal Alhambra Palace in Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain. Its style, artistic vocabulary, and harmonious proportions reflect the magnificent wall decoration in the Alhambra. The motto of the ruling Nasrid dynasty, "There is no conqueror but God," is inscribed in the end borders and central panel. The inscribed striped silk forming the central panel is more worn, suggesting that it was recycled, most likely during the 1300s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Partearroyo, Cristina. "Spanish-Muslem Textile," Bulletin de Liaison du Centre international d'etude des textiles anciens, no. 45, pt. 1 (1977), pp. 78-81. page number: Mentioned: pp. 78-85; Reproduced: p. 79, figs. 1-2; p. 85, fig. 3 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55. page number: Reproduced: no. 73, p. 7; Mentioned: no. 73, p. 53 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159799 Wardwell, Anne E. “A Fifteenth-Century Silk Curtain from Muslim Spain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 2, 1983, pp. 58–72. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 60, fig. 4; Mentioned: p. 72, no. 4 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159802 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: fig. 26, pp. 40-41 url: Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. page number: pp. 338-39 url: Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, and Manuela Marín. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. page number: Reproduced: fig. 14 url: Pérez Higuera, Teresa. Objetos e imagenes de al-Andalus. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación con el Mundo Arabe, 1994. page number: Reproduced: pp. 98-99 url: Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 6 url: Rothstein, Natalie. "Textile: Patterns: Loom-made compound weaves, Lampas" in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 30, pp. 550-554. J. S. Turner, ed. New York: Grove, 1996. page number: Mentioned: pp. 550-554; Reproduced: p. 552, pl. VII, 1, p. 553 url: Ghereh: international carpet & textile review, no.20 (Summer 1999). page number: Comparative material reproduced: pp. 123-124 url: Jacobs, Michael, and Francisco Fernandez. Alhambra. London: Frances Lincoln, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 34-35 url: Alves, Adalberto. A herança árabe em Portugal. Lisboa: CTT Correios, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: Irwin, Robert. The Alhambra. London: Profile, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 120, no. 14 url: Highet, Juliet. "Silks from Islamic Lands." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 17, issue 5 (March 2014): 16-18. page number: p. 16 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 166, p. 196; Mentioned: pp. 197-198 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.16.b/1982.16.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.16.b/1982.16.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.16.b/1982.16.b_full.tif