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Umayyad Arches, Vaults & Domes: Merging and Re-creation
- Title
- Umayyad Arches, Vaults & Domes: Merging and Re-creation
- Creator(s)
- Arce, Ignacio
- Date
- 2006
- Is Part Of
- Contributions to Early Islamic construction history
- Pages
- 195-220
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Construction History Society,
- Place Published
- Ascot
- Abstract
- Umayyad architecture and construction techniques are, up to a point, the result of a successful eclectic merging of Late Roman traditions and Partho-Sassanian ones, due to the need to establishnew cities in the conquered territories and to create a new “aulic” imagery and an appropriatearchitectural framework for the new power. The seizing of key areas of the Byzantine empire(Syria, Egypt) and the whole of the Sassanian one (Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia), provided the new rulers with two endless sources of construction traditions, artisans and materials,that blended, and gave birth to new and idiosyncratic one.
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