Sun 11.Apr.2021
California
Imagery - Granada, Spain (2012)
We pick up where we left off, in Granada, Spain.
A cafe across the street from Granada's massive, fortress-like cathedral, on the site of the
former main mosque.
Night time lights shine on the Plaza Nueva in the Spanish part of town.
Up in the Albaycin ...
A balloon vendor strolls a back street.
Dancers celebrate holiday festivites.
Let's finish up Granada with another pass through the Alhambra palace
and gardens.
The Moors took the Old Testament commandment against "graven images" as a ban on
any and all representational art. Moorish art - like most traditional Muslim art - emphasized
calligraphy...
... and geometry!
M. C. Escher was fascinated by the tesselated art of the Alhambra. It
inspired his own famous tesselations.
The sultan had a view across the little valley to the Albaycin neighborhood.
Exit the palace through the gardens.
