Designed and produced by El legado andalusí

La Fundación Tres Culturas acoge la muestra ‘Paraísos del Antiguo Sur. Imágenes históricas de Andalucía y el Magreb’

photo_camera The Three Cultures Foundation

On Thursday 11 November at 19:00, the Three Cultures Foundation will host the exhibition 'Paradises of the Ancient South. Historical images of Andalusia and the Maghreb', designed and produced by El legado andalusí.

The exhibition consists of a careful selection of photographs and models selected by the University of Granada specialists José Tito and Manuel Casares, through which the history and evolution of many of the oldest gardens in Andalusia and the Maghreb is reflected: the identity preserved in the gardens of the southern territories, in cities such as Granada, Malaga, Almeria, Cordoba, Seville, Tangier, Xauen, Fez, Tetuan, Marrakech and Algiers.

The exhibition covers historical images which, for the most part, present the same garden at different points in time, making it possible to see the evolution they have undergone. This is the case with some retrospectives of the Cármenes del Albaicín, which went from being fruit orchards to become garden spaces, as well as other emblematic spaces such as the Patio de los Arrayanes, the Patio de Machuca, the Partal, the garden of the Concepción in Málaga, and many more.

There are also evolving models, such as one that shows three different periods of the Generalife: 1526-1567, 1856-1875, 1934; or a model of the Alcazar Genil that reconstructs its hypothetical state around 1431, and its later state around 1934, when the Camino de Ronda was built. There are also some original pieces from the municipal historical archive of Granada.

Prior to the inauguration of the exhibition, at 19.00 there will be a conference entitled Al-Andalus: the art of its gardens and its gardens in art by Dr. José Tito Rojo, researcher at the University of Granada in the Department of Botany and curator of the exhibition.

The lecture will review the artistic representations of the gardens of Al-Andalus in the Middle Ages and later after the conquest, with an important part dedicated to the orientalist recreations of the 19th and 20th centuries. It will also reflect on the documentary value of the representations for the study of the medieval state of the Andalusian gardens.

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