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Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance (Syria).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance (Syria)./
Author:	Daskalakis, Annie-Christine.
Description:	963 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3191.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3146642
ISBN:	0496051822

Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance (Syria).
Daskalakis, Annie-Christine.

Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance (Syria). - 963 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3191.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

The traditional houses of Damascus date from the 18th and 19th centuries but fragments and written accounts reveal that such interiors existed in the 17th century as well. What distinguishes these houses from other Islamic examples are not their spaces, courtyards and materials, but their interior decorative schemes of inlaid stonework (ablaq) and painted and worked wood paneling and ceilings (`ajami). Scholarship has addressed various aspects of the Damascene house, except what makes them distinctive, their decoration.

ISBN: 0496051822Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Damascus 18th and 19th century houses in the ablaq-`ajami style of decoration: Local and international significance (Syria).
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520 $a Several travelers' accounts, which are cited throughout the study, paint vivid images of Damascene houses and especially the contrast between their plain street exteriors and the striking decor of their interior spaces for which great sums and efforts were expended. All the aspects of this decoration are examined in the present study: evaluation of its sources, appraisal of its position versus other contemporary schemes of decoration, interpretation of the whole decorative phenomenon, its iconography and implications.
520 $a The phenomenon that developed in Damascus may be called a "style" for it successfully expresses the concerns and tastes of the city's residents and has a distinctive set of characteristics that make it easily identifiable, standardized, repeated and multiplied. For these reasons it enjoyed a very long life-span, longer than many others. This study is the first to define this style and to coin a name by which to designate it: ablaq-`ajami .
520 $a After presenting the history and physical characteristics of Damascus that bear upon domestic architecture, the focus moves to the city's residents, their houses and lifestyle, then the decorative elements are discussed in detail. Finally, various connections are explored (with Antiquity, the Umayyad, Mamluk and Ottoman Empires, and Europe) in order to arrive at an understanding of the wider context, origins and significance of the style.
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