This article offers a new appraisal of the historical, artistic and significant values of Qurtuba’s architecture and arts from the perspective of the recent contributions of research and taking into account the Andalusian Arab sources. To do this the essential aesthetic and constituent components of Cordoba Mosque and Madinat al-Zahra have been reviewed, as well as those of the most important Qurtuba bronzes, ivories, ceramics, textiles and book arts, placing special emphasis on the formal and semantic links between them all and on those responsible for the works and the artisans and calligraphers who produced them.
Qurtuba, Cordoba, constituent and artistic components.