This is one of the paint in Sala de los Mocárabes, Palacios Nazaríes from Alhambra in Granada
"They were dated between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, their authorship is anonymous, although it can be deduced from the techniques used that they were made by artists who knew both the Nasrid and Christian worlds. According to the experts they could have been Christian artists influenced by the Florentine school, others defend that it is Moorish painting in linear Gothic style from the Andalusian area and others follow the thesis that they are Mudejar artists from Toledo, a theory affirmed by Pavón Maldonado, Opining that the paintings would turn out to be "a gift or payment from King Don Pedro I of Castile for the help given in the war against his half-brother.""
This painting have gold background.
"It is the best known. A semicircular arch gives access to the iwan with an inscription in Arabic that says. "Divine help, dominion and clear victory be for our lord Abu Abd 'Allah, prince of the Muslims"
The painting shows ten unidentified male characters, although there are several theories, the truth is that the experts have not yet agreed on this point. What we can say is that they are characters from the Nasrid nobility or high court officials. The ceremonial dress, the headdresses and the swords with their belts show it.
The ten characters are seated in the traditional way on patterned cushions and have a fluid and animated conversation, we see them gesticulating with their hands and looking at each other. The clothing is a mixture of Christian garments, such as Garnacha, and over it a wide Andalusian suit with wide sleeves. All of them cover their heads with turbans, some as a headdress wrapped around a bonnet, in others the headdress falls on the shoulders. Among the characters there are those with a gray beard, one has a beard dyed with henna, and others who seem younger beardless.
The swords they carry are the so-called Nasrid "jinetas" with two clamps, just as the Nasrids wore them, who hung them on a shoulder strap, that is, the strap crosses the chest and back and the sword hangs from one shoulder to the hip. contrary.
As you can see in the image and in the link that I indicate in the bibliography, these are authentic works of art, where the mastery of the Nasrid goldsmiths stands out. The genets were made in bronze, gold, silver, gold-plated bronze, some with ivory details. The main feature of these swords is the hilt, that is, the hilt, which is made up of three parts: the pommel with a button, the hilt and the hilt.
The arriaz is the ultra-semicircular part of the handle that falls towards the sides of the blade. Its design usually matches that of the sheath, thus completing the decoration that is usually ataurique (see glossary), geometric motifs, epigraphy.
En ambos extremos de la bóveda, vemos dos escudos de la Orden de la Banda del rey don Pedro I, aliado de Muhammad V, quien según Pavón Maldonado le habría regalado estas pinturas, como ya les indiqué. Los escudos de color carmesí con banda y cabezas de dragantes en oro, están custodiados por dos leones sentados. "
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