Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Alhambra Palace Complex

Accession Number: 
190111
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module SEVEN--6,160 images
Type of View: 
partialView
View Title: 
Entryway to the Hall of the Mocarabes (Sala de los Moc¿rabes) with stalactite muqarnas under the arch
Date of View: 
9/12/2010
Image description: 
The Hall of the Mocarabes (Sala de los Moc¿rabes) is the simplest hall of the Palace of the Lions (Palacio de los Leones). It is near the old entrance to the palace and it was so called because of the vault of mocarabes that covered it, now destroyed.
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module SEVEN
Culture: 
Spanish
Culture: 
Islamic
Work Types: 
Architecture; dwellings; houses; castles (fortifications)
Work Types: 
complexes; sites (locations); historic sites
Work Types: 
buildings; houses; official residences; palaces; royal palaces
Preferred Title: 
Alhambra Palace Complex
Agent Display: 
unknown (Islamic and Spanish)
Date: 
9th century-1492 (inclusive)
Materials: 
stone; polychrome glazed ceramic tile; terra cotta roof tile
Technique: 
fabrication attributes: ceramics
Measurement: 
142,000 m2 (area)
Alternate Title: 
Palaces of the Alhambra and Generalife
Locations: 
Granada, , Spain
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Mud¿jar
Style/Period: 
Nasrid
Classification: 
Architecture