M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival 2025<\/b><\/p>\n
Trees and their Mediterranean roots: the purpose of the new M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival image<\/b><\/p>\n
The motto for the promotional image presented for the 13th<\/sup><\/span> edition of the M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival was a vase that came to light during archaeological excavations in the Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola. It’s a partial, glazed cuerda seca piece, with green and brown decorative elements separated by lines drawn in manganese and dotted inside.<\/p>\n Its distinctive beauty exhibits a clearly organic presence. Two triple-rolled wings that seem to want to rise emerge from a cylindrical neck adjoining a globular body. Are they handles, arms, wings? These are shapes that, without being obvious, award it an anthropomorphic nature. You can feel the material, the pores of a skin drawn with green and earth-coloured geometric shapes, like a call from nature.<\/p>\n It was by sliding our eyes along this composition that the purpose of the image was born: the tree and its Mediterranean roots. M\u00e9rtola with its charms dawns across paths, hills, plateaus, and the surface, to tell us stories, with history, in the shade of a holm oak tree.<\/p>\n More information at www.festivalislamicodemertola.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Partial cuerda seca vase<\/b><\/p>\n Origin: M\u00e9rtola\/Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova do Castelo\/Cryptoporticus<\/p>\n Chronology: 12th<\/sup><\/span> century a.D.<\/p>\n Material: Ceramic decorated with partial cuerda seca<\/p>\n Dimensions: height 348 mm; max. width 320 mm<\/p>\n Location: Cl\u00e1udio Torres M\u00e9rtola Museum\/Islamic Art<\/p>\n Large vase with a slightly introverted bevelled rim, cylindrical neck, globular body and convex base with a diagonal ring foot. A filter boot remains in the area where the neck and body meet. Two ribbed wings with a pinnacle at the top join the neck and body. The decorative motifs are presented in horizontal bands where, from the edge to the base, we find a narrow line with lotus flowers, a frieze of toothed motifs at the base of the neck, a calligraphic palette repeating the word ‘baraka’<\/i><\/span> (blessing), a pelmet of phytomorphic medallions and, finally, a frieze of palmettes.<\/p>\n (G\u00d3MEZ Martinez, Susana and DELERY, Claire, M\u00e9rtola Museum – Ceramic in cuerda seca from M\u00e9rtola, M\u00e9rtola, M\u00e9rtola Archaeological Site, 2002, page 77).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival 2025 Trees and their Mediterranean roots: the purpose of the new M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival image The motto for the promotional image presented for the 13th edition of the M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival was a vase that came to light during archaeological excavations in the Alc\u00e1\u00e7ova do Castelo de M\u00e9rtola. It’s a partial, glazed… Ler mais M\u00e9rtola Islamic Festival 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,135,131,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-mertola-en","category-museum-of-mertola","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t