Cleveland Museum of Art
Column Base
- Date
- c. 960–76
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Spain, Cordoba, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031)
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This base comes from the palatial city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba (Spain) which was begun by caliph Abd al-Rahman III (r. 912–61) around 936. Large parts of the Iberian Peninsula were then under Islamic rule and experienced a cultural flowering. The city, destroyed already in 1010, was the most magnificent palace complex in Europe at the time. In the mid-1800s the ruins of Madinat al-Zahra were rediscovered and the source of great fascination as people imagined a palace like that in the stories of 1001 Nights.
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