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Item Number: 123398
Title: A la luz de la seda : catálogo de la colección de tejidos nazaríes del Museo Lázaro Galdiano y el Museo de la Alhambra : orígines y pervivencias
Author: Lopez Redondo, Amparo ; Purificación Marinetto Sánchez (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788415253518
Description: Alcobendas: Tf, 2012. 28 x 25cm., hardcover, 226pp. illus., most in color. Spanish-French text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary : Silk Brought To Light is part of a project set up to create a content network of Islamic textiles held in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Museum of the Alhambra collections. The project, subsidised by the Ministry for Education, Culture and Sport, has been made possible thanks to an agreement between the Lázaro Galdiano Foundation and Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife and the support of TF Editores and the Gómez-Moreno Institute of the Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation. With this aim, a range of activities have been put in place to highlight the importance of textiles created in al-Andalus or in the Andalusian tradition, exquisite, delicate pieces created from the 13th to 15th century, with particular emphasis on Nasrid textiles, fragments of which have survived to this day as testimony to those once used by monarchs, nobility and clergy, both Christian and Muslim, included with the grave goods of important people and used to wrap relics, as military banners, diplomatic gifts and war booty. The exhibition also acknowledges the importance of genteel collecting in Spain in the first half of the 20th century, through people such as José Lázaro Galdiano and Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, who have bequeathed two of the most important private museum collections in Spain. The research project involves cataloguing the collections of Andalusian and Moroccan collections held in the Museum of the Alhambra, the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and the Gómez-Moreno Institute. The results are presented in book form and in this exhibition, held simultaneously in Madrid and Granada, in the form of an interactive digital map which documents all surviving Nasrid textiles kept in institutions throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Also included in the exhibition is a documentary on the only surviving Hispano-Islamic draw loom in the world, held in the city of Fez in Morocco.

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