The aesthetic and plastic values of muqarnas of architecture and their impact on the development of metal work

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Specific Education, Art Education Department, Mansoura University.

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Islamic artistic creations have evolved in various fields and branches, especially Islamic architecture represent in the construction of mosques, shrines, fountains and schools, where the Islamic mosque had a role in the development of Islamic architecture, which was characterized by its own character, God Almighty said (in the houses of God's permission to raise and mention his name ) and similar to that verse the Islamic artist set off in his creation to establish his mosques, so he invented and designed all that is new from lines, geometric decorations and sculptural bodies, and The Muslim architect has achieved in the construction of the mosque the idea of sublimation and direction to the top until the voice of the muezzin is louder and excelled in the formation of minarets, domes, walls and entrances of decorations and inscription exquisite unique, especially the art of muqarnas, an art of the type of Islamic architecture in an era of the ages in which muqarnas varied countless diversity and fragmented until they became ( pendants ) sweetened by ceilings, windows, gates, contracts, minar, domes, walls and entrances in mosques, fountains and schools, where it was its first beginning in converting the square into a circle Especially in the domes with graded energies and corner corners and overlapping stations to show some models of Islamic art wonderful and distinct in building the mass with geometric shapes hollow and overlapping gradient in the rhythm of artistic and kinetic exquisite shape, which had an impact on entering spergor that art and the selection of aesthetics and analysis of vocabulary and how to benefit from it in the work of metal artifacts new and this is what this study aimed at, the importance of the study included addressing the Arab-Islamic heritage and research in an attempt to document before its extinction, because There are Landmarks that have disappeared and other Landmarks are on the way to extinction, in addition to the inspiration of the authentic Arab conscience and the Arab-Islamic heritage in the field of metalworking in a new way.



Key words: Islamic art, muqarnas, architecture, metalwork.

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