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Meanwhile, in the former territories of al-Andalus under the control of the Spanish kingdoms of Léon, Castile and Aragon, Andalusi art and architecture continued to be employed for many years as a prestigious style under new Christian patrons, becoming what is known as Mudéjar art (named after the Mudéjars or Muslims under Christian rule ...
Giuseppe Benoni (1618–1684), architect; Eugene de Blaas (1843–1932), painter in the Academic Classicism school; Boccaccio Boccaccino (c. 1467–c. 1525), painter belonging to the Emilian school; Camillo Boito (1836–1914), architect and engineer; Bartolomeo Bon (d. after 1464), architect and sculptor
After the Moorish occupation, Pre-Romanesque art was first reduced to the Kingdom of Asturias, the only Christian realm in the area at the time which reached high levels of artistic depuration. (See Asturian art). The Christians who lived in Moorish territory, the Mozarabs, created their own architectural and illumination style, Mozarabic art.
The European architects and planners also drew on traditional Moroccan architecture to develop a style sometimes referred to as Neo-Mauresque (similar to Neo-Moorish) or Arabisant ("Arabizing"), blending contemporary European architecture with a pastiche of traditional Moroccan architecture, with the encouragement of the French resident general ...
Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque , Romanesque , and Gothic . In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style , marking the end of the medieval period.
Mediterranean Revival Style 1890s–present; US, Latin America, Europe; Memphis Group 1981–1988; Merovingian architecture 5th–8th centuries; France and Germany; Metabolist Movement 1959 Japan; Mid-century modern 1950s–1960s California, US, Latin America; Mission Revival Style architecture 1894–1936; California, US; Modern movement 1927 ...
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Venetian Renaissance architecture began rather later than in Florence, not really before the 1480s, [1] and throughout the period mostly relied on architects imported from elsewhere in Italy. The city was very rich during the period, and prone to fires, so there was a large amount of building going on most of the time, and at least the facades ...