Andalusian Tilework The Art Of Ceramic Decoration Daniel R Caruncho by Daniel R. Caruncho 9788491031574, 849103157X instant download after payment.

This book devoted to Andalusian Tilework compiles Andalusia's most important and representative tile designs and ceramic work. Inheritor of Muslim art, Andalusian tilework demonstrates the historical evolution of the different artistic styles that took root in the Iberian Peninsula.

Organised into chapters, this book carries out a chronological tour of Andalusian tilework, exploring the evolution of different decorative techniques and pictorial motifs typical of each period. Starting from Mudejar tilework to Modernist tilework, as well as Isabelline, Renaissance and Historicist tilework.

This book published by Dosde includes more than 300 excellent quality pictures and detailed information which allow the reader to get closer to Andalusian ceramic work, a highly skilled technique that can still be appreciated today thanks to monuments such as the Alhambra in Granada.

A publication that would interest all art book and architecture book lovers, as well as those who would like an excellent souvenir of the fascinating world of Andalusian tilework.

The origins of Andalusian ceramic work

The stunning azulejos, the vitrified ceramic tiles used to adorn walls and floors, constitute one of the main signs of identity in Andalusian art and architecture. This type of decoration has its most distant origins in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, civilizations to which the first known glazed bricks are attributed.

The application of glazed ceramic work on architectonic surfaces was taken up and continued by the Persian Empire, and it received its definitive impulse with the blossoming of Islamic culture. The Muslims promoted the development of new techniques that were able to exploit the full artistic potential of vitrified ceramic work, in an attempt to emulate Greco-Roman and Byzantine mosaic work.

The alicatado technique in Andalusian tilework

The most representative mosaic tilework in Muslim Andalusia was created using the alicatado technique, which consisted of cutting glazed