kvanko history

1. Essential Question: How did
Muslims influence music, art, and
recreation (what people do in free
time) 

2. Geometric and Floral Desgins
• Muslims rejected use of
images (humans or
animals) in visual art
– They believed only
God could create
something that is
alive
– Instead artists used
shapes, patterns
found in nature to
create art

3. Artists created…
• -Illuminated manuscripts on
Qur’an
• -Plates, glassware,
• clothing
• -Decorated mosques,
• palaces

4. examples

5. What is the design called
arabesque?
• Art from nature
– Artists created stems,
leaves, flowers, and
patterns over and
over
– Carved and painted
this design on many
objects

6. The highest form of art is
calligraphy!
• Calligraphy=art of
beautiful handwriting
– It appears in Qur’an
because it is a holy
book
– Used bamboo
dipped in ink to
write on paper

7. Music in Muslim areas of Spain
arose
• Many centers of music
in Baghdad, and
Cordoba
• Ziryab=musician who
created a conservatory
– Advanced school of
music
• Singing = part of muslim
culture
– -used drums, flutes,
lutes

8. • This is the music school from the previous
slide

9. What did Muslims do in their free
time in medieval times? (For FUN!)

• Played Polo
– Sport
– Teams ride on horses,
use mallets, to strike a
ball through a goal
• Played chess
– Invented in India
– Caliphs had matches
– They enjoyed the
intellectual challenge