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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Nationality: Asian; Middle Eastern; Persian Creator Dates/Places: Iran Creator Active Place: Iran Creator Name-CRT: Iran, Isfahan Title: Mihrab and Insciption Frieze from a Mosque Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1480 Creation End Date: 1520 Creation Date: c. 1500 Creation Place: Iran, Isfahan Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Classification Term: Ceramic Materials and Techniques: ceramic mosaic Dimensions: Overall: 290.7cm x 245.3cm Inscriptions: The insciptions on the mihrab and frieze are from the Koran. On the frieze are written the first 30 verses from the Chapter of the Dawn (89). The inscription on the mihrab is from the Chapter of Light (24: 35-36) and translates:God is the light of the Heavens and the Earth.His Light is like a niche in which is a lamp---thelamp enclosed in glass---the glass, as it were, a glistening star. From a blessed tree it is lighted,the olive neither of the East nor of the West,whose oil would well neigh shine out, even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light.God guideth whom He will to His light, and Godsetteth forth parables to men, for God knoweth. AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1962.23 Credit Line: Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: The Mihrab is the focal point in the interior of a mosque. It is an arch-shaped niche placed in the qibla wall, which is the wall closest to Mecca. Muslims face the qibla wall when praying in a mosque, for they are required to turn toward Mecca in prayer.From the earliest times, the richest decoration in a mosque was lavished on the qibla wall, and most particularly on the mihrab. The mihrab may have developed as a decorative form to symbolize the spot where Muhammad stood in the qibla wall of the first Mosque in Medina to deliver his sermons. The museum's inscription frieze may have served as an ornamental band at the top of the quibla wall.Ceramic MosaicIn the technique of ceramic mosaic, the design is composed of individual pieces of tile cut to the appropriate shape and fitted together according to the pattern. The individual segments are cut from monochrome tiles with the sharp edge of a hammer; they are afterwords smoothed down with a file, and the back of each piece tapered to a ridge or point. The pieces are then arranged, face down, according to the pattern which has been drawn on a supporting surface. This arranged, the back is covered with a coat of plaster that flows into the troughs formed by the taper of the individual pieces. The work is done in sections of a size that can be handled, and the sections are laid up like great tiles. AMICA ID: CMA_.1962.23 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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