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Moorish Architecture in Spain | Moorish Spain (8-15th Centuries) Orientalist Art, Orientalist Paintings, Middle Eastern Art, Arabian Art, Al Andalus, Arabic Art, Arabian Nights, Historical Art, Eastern Art

The Arab armies fired by Islam reached Western Europe in the 8th century, sweeping over the Iberian Peninsula, but turned back by the Franks at Tours. One small Christian kingdom remained unconquered--Asturias. Here the Visigothic claimant held out. What followed was the reconquest of the Iberian Penninsula by a long series of Christian kings. It is a complicated story. It is not entirely clear why the Moors tolerated a Visigothic Christizn kingdom south of the Pyrenees. But within…

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Francisco Muros Ubeda - The Alhambra , February 19, 1836 - Granada, June 2, 1917) was a painter belonging to the Granada school of the nineteenth century, draftsman and honorary professor of the school of fine arts of Granada. Medieval Middle East, Orientalist Art, Orientalist Paintings, Moorish Architecture, Alhambra Palace, Middle Eastern Art, Turkish Ottoman, Arabian Art, Moroccan Art

Francisco Muros Ubeda (Granada, February 19, 1836 - Granada, June 2, 1917) was a painter belonging to the Granada school of the nineteenth century, draftsman and honorary professor of the school of fine arts of Granada. [Palais Dorotheum, Vienna - Oil on panel, 45.5 x 37 cm]

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