"Tangiers 1685 buildings" Topic
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| yarr68 | 20 Feb 2014 9:58 p.m. PST |
I'm going to be painting up the English and Moors/Moroccans for Tangiers, using the new Donnybrook Rules.
What do you think the buildings of Tangiers would have looked like? Would some building have been European as Portugal once owned it or would it be African/Moorish buildings, as in Moorish Spain? or like the typical North African adobe kind of buildings? Any ideas?? |
| Chacrinha | 20 Feb 2014 10:21 p.m. PST |
You don't need to imagine, Wenceslas Hollar made a number of contemporary paintings, drawings and etchings of Tangiers that show the structures and the defences as well as some details of the garrison . The British Museum has a collection. On my old laptop I had a site bookmarked with most of them but if you do a quick Google search for Hollar + Tangier you should come up with multiple images. |
| Chacrinha | 20 Feb 2014 10:28 p.m. PST |
Here you go Wikiwhasit will get you strarted, they have a whole page worth but there are more out there. link |
| Chacrinha | 20 Feb 2014 10:33 p.m. PST |
Oh and as Tangiers was inherited from Portugal, the main town defences and interior buildings were of Portuguese construction. The Portuguese inhabitants were less than thrilled to be handed over to the heretical English, nearly all departed in 1665 and when thy left, many stripped their former abodes, right down to the windows and doors. IIRC Pepys' diaries and other contemporary accounts do make some mention of shaded interior courtyards to some dwellings. |
| yarr68 | 21 Feb 2014 5:02 a.m. PST |
Thanks Chacrinha! That's excellent! |
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