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Mosquée de Cordoue – Cathédrale du Puy. Porte de l’enfance du Christ et porte de la passion. Le temple de Diane. Grande mosquée de Cordoue. Chapelle saint-Michel d ’Aiguihle. Les routes de Compostelle. San Juan de Duero (à Soria). Manteau de couronnement de Roger II de Sicile.
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(au sujet de l’inscription en écriture couphique) « It indicates the lack of Western understanding of Islamic religion and culture and its view of Islam as a vague, foreign, external “other” (as opposed to the Jews who functioned as an internal cultural “other” » Andreas Petzold, Romanesque Art, p. 146.
“The inscription around the door at Le Puy is typical of the way in which European artists assimilated certain aspects of the vocabulary of Islamic art, transforming it into a decorative element, and in the process robbing it of meaning.” (Ibid., p. 146)