Pieces of Islamic art Mértola will be exposed in the Museum … – Reuters

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

Nine pieces from the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art Mértola part of a temporary exhibition that opens from Friday at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

                     

                          Exposure Le Maroc Medieval – Un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne , which incorporates parts of several countries, like Portugal, will be open to the public in the Hall Napoléon of the Louvre Museum until the day January 19, 2015, indicates the Chamber of Mértola, in a statement sent to Lusa.

The exhibition, curated by Yannick Lintz (director of the department of Islamic Arts, the Louvre) and Bahija Simou (director of the Royal Archives of Rabat), will be open “a privileged space of the prestigious Louvre Museum, the most visited in the world, which constitutes an important means of dissemination of the collection and the work that has been to develop the Museum of Mértola in recent decades “, says the municipality.

According to the municipality, the exhibition will” show some objects of excellence, which, in artistic and technical terms, illustrate the heyday of the Islamic world West, between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries AD, in areas such as decoration applied to architecture, textiles, ivory, metals and ceramics. “

In this way, the exhibition, organized by the Louvre Museum and the National Foundation of Museums of Morocco, seeks to present “a civilization that was at the center of diplomatic and trade networks of the time.”

For the exhibition, indicating the municipality, the Museum of Mértola released nine representative pieces of Islamic period, dating from the twelfth century and 1st half of the thirteenth century AD, which “illustrate the importance of the collection” the museum center.

Among the nine pieces, must the municipality, there is one hoist stamped pottery, various objects decorated with cuerda seca technique, with “main focus” for a plate decorated with a gazelle, and a plate of bronze in the central medallion is a decorative motif that surrounds two gazelles with necks entwined.

From January 19, the exhibition of the Louvre “will cross the Mediterranean” and can be enjoyed at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco, until March 2015.