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Column Capital
c. 960–76
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This capital 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.
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Details
- Title: Column Capital
- Date Created: c. 960–76
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 26 x 37 x 28.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Sam Fogg, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.4
- Medium: Marble
- Fun Fact: In the mid-1800s the ruins of Madinat al-Zahra were rediscovered and became the source of great fascination as people imagined a palace like that in the stories of <em>One Thousand and One Nights</em>.
- Department: Islamic Art
- Culture: Spain, Cordoba, Madinat al-Zahra, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031)
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Accession Number: 2021.4
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