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 included present-day Holland and Belgium) from the mid-15th 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 difficult 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.

• Illustrated Books in the Early Middle Ages

  • A different mixture is seen in the opening from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, where the evangelist portrait reflects an adaptation of classical Italian style, while the text page is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.
  • This is one of the so-called "Tiberius Group" of manuscripts, which leaned towards the Italian style.
  • However, the surviving 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.
  • The evangelist portrait from the Stockholm Codex Aureus, one of the "Tiberius Group," that shows the Insular style and classicizing continental styles that combined and competed in early Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.