HAA 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Abrahamic Religions, Kaaba, Spolia
14 Mar 2017
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Judaism(savior hasn"t come yet), christianity (jesus), islam (mohammad) Muhammad placing the black stone in his cloak. Different scripts distinguished the writing from mundane speech. Each color is a separate inscription of ali. Function: instead of depicting figure, memorialize him by the use of inscription, uses special relationships as proof for divinity of the figure. Similarities: places of worship, high up (close to gods), both tied to origin histories, state of them are connected to turmoil surrounding them, distances you from object. Hypostyle: roof supported by an array of columns. Spolia: deconstruct other building to construct your own. End of the mosque is marked by increased elaboration. Great mosque of cordoba vs. kallikrates and iktinos parthenon. Differences: columns from parthenon are not reused, mosque was meant for public use, parthenon focuses on exterior (mosque interior) Exam (march 2nd): slide id (show images and identify them), vocab (matching words to definitions), short answer (art and death, art and power, art and religion/spiritual),
