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It hurts to realize that they could so easily have become extinct.
Journalist Jesus Cabrera, another regular visitor, is equally enthralled. I use sheep or ram skins which are prepared in a very specific way and covered with a coating of silver leaf. He said the silver coating hides the skin beneath and augments one of the characteristics of the Islamic Guadameci, namely its luxurious appearance. He adds that the paintings and designs are true to his artistic preferences and always inspired by Islamic styles and range of colors.
The design is thus pressed onto the gold or silver base. Each work can take a year to craft because of its particular characteristics and complexity. He remembers watching his master and uncle Ramon Garcia Romero create elaborate guadameci designs in his studio at home.
It all started as a childhood game of trying to catch the gold and silver particles floating in the air before settling on the workshop floor. The legacy of leatherwork has enriched the world beyond Cordoba. My work has been bought for private collections of great economic value throughout the Western world. However, he said the Arab world is the closest to his work and appreciates the historical significance and bond the Guadameci technique represents. Jose Carlos feels more comfortable and artistically appreciated in the Middle East.
Jose Carlos stressed the importance of passing on knowledge to future generations to ensure that the artistic and cultural aspects of any civilization thrive. The Museum of the Omeyan Guadameci is in contact with institutions around the world interested in sharing knowledge of the Arab era. There are windows where one can see the gardens below the palace or one can see the city of Granada.
Everywhere there are beautiful vistas.
There is also the Court of the Myrtles with its huge courtyard and pool. The tower of Comares is in the background and reflects in the pool. The Court of the Lions is huge and impressive.
The original lion statues will be placed in the nearby Museo de Bellas Artes in the Carlos V Palace to preserve them, because they have suffered erosion through the years, being exposed to the rain in the open patio. Copies of the lion statues will be put in this court.
Another beautiful place are the gardens of the Partal, adjacent to the Torre de las Damas. There is a large reflecting pool adjacent to this structure. This building has beautiful arches over columns and inside, one has beautiful views of the city below. It is interesting to note that in all these gardens adjacent to the palace, there are many beautiful cats that are not scared of the crowds of people. The Generalife Gardens are probably the best known gardens in Spain.
They are huge and one can enjoy walking through them. At the entrance, there is a large open air patio that is sloping to a stage, where concerts and other public performances are held. Everywhere in the gardens there are little fountains that splash water. The sound of running water was very soothing to the Moors and they engineered a system to bring large amounts of water from the Darro River upstream from the city of Granada to the Alhambra fortress, so that they could withstand sieges and also use the water in the palaces and gardens.
The gardens are surrounded by a forest of trees, and one can see the channels where the water runs. The gardens are very well tended by 35 professional gardeners and one can see them at work while one wanders through the gardens.
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There are many rose plants and other aromatic plants and shrubs because the Moors liked to have perfumed gardens, which are a delight to the senses. Many of one's senses are engaged in these beautiful gardens, the sense of sight, smell, and hearing. What is interesting is that the gardens are divided into smaller gardens by huge green hedges, which have cutouts so that one can see adjacent gardens.
The Water Stairway is a series of round patios with hand rails that bring water in small channels. The patios and the hand rails with the water go downhill. One needs at least an hour to see all of these gardens in the Generalife. One can spend much more time here taking pictures of everything. One can really appreciate what the Moors built here. The designs are all to human scale and there is pure genius in the designs. The human scale is probably what makes the palaces so beautiful and engaging.
One can imagine how life would be if one lived in these palaces. The Alhambra Palace has the Fountain of the Lions, which is now being restored.
There were 12 lions that surrounded the fountain and the water would spew out of the mouths of the stone lions. The lions were removed and are in restoration and are being studied. Copies will be made of the lions and placed around the fountain, while the original lions will be placed in the Alhambra Museum. The scholars studying the stone lions now know that they were sculpted between and during the reign of Muhamad V. The king ordered one sculpture built by an artist, and this was probably the biggest lion, because it has the most detailing. The other lions were built by other artists, trying to copy this lion, but all of the lions are different in details from each other.
They were all made of marble from Macael. They were restored in the 17th century by Alonso de Mena.
It is known that the lions were polychromed before that restoration. The fountain is an ancient symbol that arrived in Granada from pre-Christian civilizations in the East. The lion spewing water from its mouth is the sun, which gives life to everything. The 12 suns of the fountain are the 12 suns of the zodiac, the 12 months of the year. The Alhambra Museum displays one stone lion from the Fountain of the Lions, and this lion has already been restored. The sides of the lion are asymmetrical, so when one sees it from one side, it looks different when one sees it from the other side.
What is interesting is that today many Islamic communities forbid the representation of human and animal figures. During the Muslim era in Spain, these depictions were not allowed in religious buildings, but they did appear in secular works. Figurative art in Al-Andalus flourished from the Omayyad period and the Caliphate to the Nasrid dynasty, when objects and living beings were commonly represented in private houses and palaces.
Although initially decoration tended to show inanimate objects and use symbolic language, Islamic art gradually assimilated the customs and artistic styles of the conquered areas through the filter of its own particular aesthetics. Animal-shaped fountains are frequently found in Moorish palaces in Spain. This is explained in the Alhambra Museum. This also explains the very large Vase of the Gazelles in the museum, which depicts gazelles.
The Alhambra Palace also has a ceiling painting of a sultan and members of his court. Another point that should be made is that the Moors inherited the grape vineyards that originally came from the Romans and they continued to produce wine.
Many Moors drank wine, which was considered to be medicinal, and was not forbidden by the Muslim religion that was practiced in Al-Andalus at that time. The Cathedral in Cordoba is the Mezquita. This was the most important mosque of the western Islamic world and one of the biggest mosques.