About Damascus Ajami Room
An ajami room is the panelled reception hall of a Damascene courtyard house — wood lined floor to ceiling, gesso piped into low relief, gold and tin leaf laid under tinted glazes, egg tempera for the flat painting. Whole rooms were dismantled and shipped to museums.
Three centuries of restoration varnish have sunk the field to a deep green-brown. That is the state the artefact is actually in, and it is the state this system works in: a dark panelled wall where gilding and inscription do the illuminating.
- Origin
- Damascus, Syria
- Era
- 17th–19th century Ottoman Damascus; the Metropolitan Museum room dated 1119 AH / 1707 CE
- Key figures
- Anke Scharrahs
- Movements
- Ottoman-Syrian interior painting · ajami gesso-relief gilding · Arabic inscription band calligraphy
Damascus Ajami Room design spec
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Noto Kufi ArabicHeadings
EB GaramondBody
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