Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson peak, 5,710 ft (1,740 m) high, S Calif., in the San Gabriel Mts., NE of Pasadena. It is the site of Mt. Wilson Observatory (est. 1904), one of the Hale Observatories. A 100-in. (254-cm) reflecting telescope there, no longer in use, was once the world's largest.
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Sunday Telegraph Travel: Sketches of Spain The novelist Barbara Trapido sees the nation's history reflected in the Prado and her own reflected in the arches of a Mudejar synagogue
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...We went to Toledo's two synagogues - our first glimpses of Mudejar architecture, a hybrid of Christian and Moorish design distinguished...Maimonides and of Averroes in the small cobbled squares. In the Mudejar synagogue, tourists with flash cameras flashed relentl
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From Azulejos to Zaguanes: the Islamic legacy in the built environment of Hispano-America.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Southwest; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...retained in a stylistic expression known as Mudejar. More than a style in and of itself, the Mudejar expression is the unifying factor, the constant...fifteenth centuries. (3) The apogee of the Mudejar period is during the thirteenth and fourteenth...
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Of Women-Centered Moroccan Tales and Their Imagined Communities
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and art form, known in art histoiy as Mudejar - the name designating the Muslims who...Numerous features of that Nasricle and Mudejar culture can be found in Tetouan where...point out, the style of dress of the Mudejar women of Granada is still evident in the...
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East meets West
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...January 31, 2001 -- BEGOA OLAVIDE Mudejar (MA Recordings/MCI) MAURICE EL MEDIONI...stronger claim to the "world" epithet. "Mudejar" is an Arabic term referring to Moslems...Jerusalem and Tel Aviv last month. The Mudejar style is based on Moorish melodies and...
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Spanish colonial furniture of the West Indies.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...s that were clearly influenced by the Mudejar style then popular in southern Spain...There are also numerous examples of Mudejar style churches, cathedrals, and municipal...Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Mudejar style furniture features similar ornamentation...
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MOGUL SPLENDOUR.(Moor architecture in Spain)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...insignificant. The opposite is true of the Mudejar style, which influenced architecture...domination after the reconquista, the word Mudejar is derived from the Arabic muddajan...Alhambra and Sevilla's Alcazar. Another Mudejar speciality are the glazed tiles known...
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The Cuba you haven't seen: the colonial elegance and grand style of a storied historical island is rediscovered in a new book.
Magazine article from: House Beautiful; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...imitated Spanish ecclesiastical styles and Mudejar construction techniques. Mudejar was a Moorish architectural style then popular...included the cedar trunk or chest, displaying the Mudejar zigzag dovetails that are unique to Cuban colonial...
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Getting Seville-ized: Sample history, shopping and Spanish spirit.(Originated from Orange County Register)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/18/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...alcazar was built in the 14th century in the mudejar style, a combination of Moorish and Gothic...hotel, built in the 1920s in a beautiful mudejar-revival style. Though the rooms are...paddle boats). It's all enclosed by a mudejar-revival structure of ochre stone trimmed...
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The victors and the vanquished; Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 514 words
; ...ethnic, and cultural identities of mudejar society. He describes the 500 years in...by conquest, the establishment of the mudejar as infidel and their efforts to perpetuate...Christian conquest on individuals within the mudejar community. Catlos provides a very helpful...
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Recent studies from University of Seville add new data to acoustic research.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Journal of Engineering; 10/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...acoustic simulation can be carried out in Mudejar-Gothic churches. The estimation of...methodology implemented is applied to six Mudejar-Gothic churches of Seville (southern...Society of America (Acoustic simulations of Mudejar-Gothic churches. Journal of the Acoustical...
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Mudejar
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Mudejar a subject Muslim during the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula...architecture and art prevalent in Spain in the 12th to 15th centuries. Mudejar is Spanish, and comes from Arabic mudajjan ‘allowed to stay...
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Isabella I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...arts and promoted great building activity. The style of the period is called isabelino after the queen; it combines Gothic, Mudejar, and Renaissance features. Isabella bequeathed Castile to her daughter Joanna , with Ferdinand as regent. Bibliography...
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strapwork
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...folded, crossed, cut, and interlaced, resembling narrow leather-straps or thongs. It occurred in an early guise in Mudejar decoration in C15 Spain, but evolved in its most usual forms in early C16 decorations in Tudor England and, especially...
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