A “floral garment” for the Paradise Garden: the Mudejar plaster-works
Mª Ángeles JORDANO BARBUDO
Original title: Un “vestido floral” para el Jardín del Paraíso: las yeserías mudéjares
Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages
Keywords: Mosque Cathedral, Mudejar, Paradise Garden, Plaster-works, Royal Chapel, Sufism.
The Paradise Garden is a constant feature in the Islamic world. As a result of its survival under Christian domain is its representation through the Mudejar plaster-works, especially in the court spaces nourished as a "qubba", where the tree of Paradise and an endless number of leaves and fruits invade the paraments, showing bright colours -golden, red, blue and black.