There are more than a hundred of these elegant columns that support the porticoes in the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra. In the words of Robert Irwin, in the Court of the Lions "one has a sense of architecture descending from heaven rather than resting upon the earth on which it was built."
There are more than a hundred of these elegant columns that support the porticoes in the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra. In the words of Robert Irwin, in the Court of the Lions "one has a sense of architecture descending from heaven rather than resting upon the earth on which it was built." [Robert Irwin, The Alhambra (London: Profile Books, 2004) 49.] For an account of the Court of the Lions, see B49. 210. For a general account of the Alhambra, see slide B49.185.
Photograph created 1963. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly catalogued as B49.220, BV.038. Notes written on the slide or index: Court of the Lions (arcade).
