SPAIN: discover the Alhambra Nazari unusual design drawings / Reason / The restoration of wood and plaster Alhambra performed on the Patio Lions has unveiled drawings of Moorish period hidden in the back of the pieces, some with symbols prohibited by Islam and unusual reasons, as the star of 11 points used to fit the hemispherical dome.
The Board of the Alhambra It began on October 9 the first restoration works are made from the decade of the 30s in the heart of the Patio de los Leones, one of the emblems of the most visited monument in the country.
A little more two months of work have enabled the Restoration Workshop of the Moorish monument find drawings and signs dating from the fourteenth century and that were hidden in the back of the pieces that make up the dome of the west pavilion of the Patio de los Leones team.
One of the responsible for the restoration, Maria Jose Domene, explained that during the operation found points of reference used by the craftsmen to know where to place each piece, but also drawings and strokes that were made for the public not contemplated.
“Stray dots location, but also strokes and drawings with motifs even prohibited by Islam, as the human figure, and others like the head of a dog, with its polychrome, which , being in the back and having no varnish and dirt, have remained surprisingly “he pointed Domene.
These dated around the year 1380 offered drawing geometric shapes, animal silhouettes, ornamental or vegetable plots and reveal how they worked Nazari craftsmen and techniques used for decoration of the Alhambra.
The monument has initiated the first comprehensive restoration in these areas of the Patio de los Leones from the fourteenth century , a work that will add to a small intervention that was made between 1923 and 1936, when the architect Leopoldo Torres Balbas was curator of the monument.
The roof of the pavilion, with a diameter of 3.30 meters , you are 669 zafates, pieces of pine elongated and geometrically arranged in wheels with stars.
Those responsible for the restoration have also stressed that this dome contains eleven-pointed star, which is unusual, because the all time had pointed star pairs which were used to fit the semicircular shape of the dome.
Each piece is carved and painted in minute detail, and the intervention initiated by the Board will allow analyzing pigments, create a mapping of the pieces and remove those with damage to rehabilitate them and return them to their original location.
Director of the Board, Reynaldo Fernández, and the regional government delegate in Granada, Sandra Garcia They highlighted the formation and quality of the restorers of the Alhambra, demanded by other monuments in Europe, whose rigor and training have further discovered such findings and preserve the craftsmanship of the monument.
In parallel intervention in the temple and in the Palace of the Lions, the Conservation Service works in the gallery of the Hall of the Kings, where in the coming weeks will end an operation to clean up the colors of the plasterwork, which “will change the light and how to see the Alhambra, “Fernandez pointed out.
This is the first intervention with scientific methodology that is following international standards and allowed to find colors with ultraviolet light were exported during the construction of the Alhambra from Afghanistan, Blue highly prized for its high cost and rare in the architecture of the time.
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