Hispano-Moresque style

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.