Court of the lions, Alhambra

Art historians suggest that the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra is an architectural representation of Paradise, containing four distinct parts which represent the four corners of the world. The columns are like palms in an oasis, and each section of the garden is irrigated with a water channel to form four rivers. Though today the gardens are just dry stone gardens, they were full of trimmed flowers in the Middle Ages.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

1988-05

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Box 7

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Spanish/Islamic

Granada, Spain

2007-07-13

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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