Die Alhambra in Granada,

1868

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

72,1 x 91,5 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 12

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11457

Acquisition

Vor 1874 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Franz von Lenbach, Die Alhambra in Granada, 1868, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/OrLbdq541V (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

Lenbach’s painting shows a view of the Alhambra palace across the Darro valley. The Torre de Comares can be seen on the left, followed to the right by the palace of Emperor Charles V. The older part of the palace ranges across the right half of the hilltop, flanked by the Torre della Reina and the Torre della Vela. The snow-covered Sierra Nevada appears in the background. Schack saw the Moorish royal palace as a potent symbol of the Iberian peninsula’s Arabian and Islamic past.