Eduard Gerhardt
(1813-1888)
Der Löwenhof der Alhambra,
1860
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
88 x 76,2 cm
Displayed
Sammlung Schack Saal 18
Acquisition
Vor 1866 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München
Citation
Eduard Gerhardt, Der Löwenhof der Alhambra, 1860, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/JzG6WN84WO (Last updated on 19.06.2023)
More than any other building in Spain the Alhambra epitomises the Moorish epoch in the country’s history. Interest in it, and in medieval Spain as a whole, revived in the Romantic age. Schack, too, succumbed to the magic of the palace and wrote of Gerhardt’s painting: ‘One can almost hear the splashing of the water in the fountain and the rustling of the cypresses in the wind; images from some tale in The Thousand and One Nights inevitably appear before our mind’s eye.’
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