Mª Ángeles JORDANO BARBUDO

A “floral garment” for the Paradise Garden: the Mudejar plaster-works

Un “vestido floral” para el Jardín del Paraíso: las yeserías mudéjares

Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages

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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.