Aleppo Room, Islamic art exhibit in Pergamon Museum, Germany
The Aleppo Room is a wooden wall installation with painted decorative panels in the Museum of Islamic Art. The work dates from the early 1600s and displays scenes from Biblical and Quranic stories rendered with Persian and Syrian artistic techniques.
The panels were removed from a wealthy Christian merchant's house in Aleppo between 1600 and 1603 and brought to Berlin in the 1920s. They represent the oldest surviving complete example of this type of wall decoration from Syria.
The wall panels display Christian and Islamic motifs woven together through detailed paintings, reflecting how different religious communities lived side by side in 17th-century Aleppo.
The installation is located on Museum Island within the Museum of Islamic Art as part of a broader collection on Islamic art history. The spatial arrangement of the panels allows visitors to view the painted surfaces from different distances and angles.
The panels originally adorned a private household and showcase a rare artistic fusion of Persian and Syrian traditions from the early modern period. This blend of artistic traditions within a domestic setting makes it an exceptional window into the artistic preferences of that era.
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