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Artistic training course: Mozarabic art
From July 17, 2025 until September 21, 2025The course will be held from September 23, 2025 through December 16, 2025, in a weekly session from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
The course will be held from September 23, 2025 through December 16, 2025, in a weekly session from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The registration fee is 50 euros. No more than 35 students.
In Spanish.
From September 23, 2025 to December 16, 2025, Casa Árabe will be hosting
the continuation of this artistic training course at its headquarters
in Cordoba. It will be held across 14 sessions which, in addition to
theoretical notions, we will be including guided tours. Registration now
open.
Taught by Prof. Marisa Campillo, the course objective is to provide participants with the tools necessary to describe and analyze Spanish-Muslim Nasrid art from all different eras, recognizing and identifying its main architectural works.The first session will be held on September 23, 2025.
After the success of the prior editions, “Approaching the art of Al-Andalus” (one and two) ”The Mudéjar Style in Spanish Architecture” (parts one, two and three )”, “The art of the North African Almoravid and Almohad Berber empires” and “Nasrid art” (parts one and two), Casa Árabe is now hosting this course intended for anyone who wishes to learn about Mudéjar art and analyze it in its different forms, regardless of their past academic training. The content and corresponding guided tours (organized by interested students) will be taking place across 14 weeks from September to December 2025.
The term “Mozarabic art” was coined by Manuel Gómez Moreno in 1919 in his book “Iglesias Mozárabes” (“Mozarabic Churches”). Since then, despite numerous detractors, this term has become widely used to characterize the art of Christian Spain between the ninth and eleventh centuries, from the end of the “official” art of the Asturian monarchy to the emergence of the Romanesque style.
It was the art developed by the Mozarabs of Al-Andalus, Christians who lived alongside Muslims in exchange for a tax, both in Al-Andalus itself and in the area of the Douro River, once they had emigrated to this Christian region for various reasons. They brought with them an art form that was more or less influenced by the earlier Visigothic churches and, above all, by caliphate Islamic art.
The current school of thought rejects this name and prefers to call it “fusion,” “cross-border” or “repopulation” art, based on the fact that it coincides with the repopulation of the Douro River area, when the borders of the Asturian-Leonese kingdom expanded southward, in which many Mozarabs from Al-Andalus played a role.
OBJECTIVES
- To provide participants with all of the knowledge they require for a greater awareness of the art and culture in their surrounding environment.
- Starting out with the historical context, describing and analyzing Mozarabic art.
- Using proper artistic language and the appropriate specific terminology.
- To promote social communication through interpersonal relationships..
METHODOLOGY
This will be based upon:
1.- Weekly sessions in person lasting an hour and a half. At these sessions, different teaching resources will be used, including PowerPoint presentations, videos, charts, maps, timelines, etc. 2.- Guided tours.
GUIDED TOURS
The guided tours will be given by students and will be held, by consensus, on different dates throughout the course.
REGISTRATION
Registration is to be performed by clicking on the following link. Please, clearly enter your full name and an email address where we can contact you. Casa Árabe will contact those interested to confirm their registration and provide information on the method of payment.
