Damascus Room (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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The Damascus Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

The Damascus Room (or Nur-al-Din Room) is a reproduction of a vestibule of a Syrian upper-class household and is part of the exhibition space of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City .

history

The Damascus Room was conceived during the 1970s as part of the Islamic and Ottoman wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with the majority being worked directly with materials from Syria, based on the model of the 1707 room from Damascus . Although the exhibition room was initially named after the family name Nur al-Din mentioned in various sales documents, in the meantime the term based on the Syrian capital has established itself as the museum believes that the provenance of the room is insufficiently historically verified better justice. The room was extensively renovated in 2011 and is now part of the newly established Islamic gallery.

Furnishing

The interior of the room is a reproduction of a typical vestibule of a Syrian upper-class household, following the common lines and shapes of the Ottoman building and decoration culture of the 18th century in the Middle East . The room is characterized by heavy wood paneling on the walls and ceiling, which in turn is richly decorated and ornamented, taking up the geometric forms of the Islamic building tradition as well as poetic inscriptions in Arabic . Windows and wall cupboards are also built into the wall decorations, which are decorated with ornate porcelain vases.

Between the wood paneling on the wall and the ceiling ornamented with stucco there are four windows marked by stained glass , which are painted in dark tones, and allow dimmed light into the room.

In the front part of the entrance the room is filled with a colorfully decorated fountain, which in turn takes up the tradition of Islamic fountain construction and is embedded in a white marble floor, which is geometrically delimited by various colors and patterns. The transition between the floor and the wall paneling is formed by a simple row of divans in purple-reddish velvet , which invites you to linger.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Damascus Room. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Holland Cotter: The Met's New Islamic Galleries - Review . In: The New York Times . October 27, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 23, 2019]).
  3. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Damascus Room. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art: Damascus Room. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Qa'a: The Damascus room. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kelly Crow: A New Home for Arab Treasures . In: Wall Street Journal . September 9, 2011, ISSN  0099-9660 ( wsj.com [accessed September 23, 2019]).