Detail of

Wood Carving of a Scene (33. The defeat and capture of Muhammad XII (Boabdil) at the battle of Lucena in AD 1483) of the Conquest of Granada on the Choir Stalls in Toledo Cathedral



Source: p.47. The Moors - The Islamic West - 7th-15th Centuries AD by David Nicolle
Work on the wooden panels in Toledo Cathedral, illustrating the conquest of the amirate of Granada, is said to have started within three or four years of the completion of the conquest. This panel shows the defeat and capture of Muhammad XII (Boabdil) at the battle of Lucena in AD 1483. One of the bearded Andalusians carries a strange staff weapon with a spiked ball attached by a chain (far right). Another carries a rectangular mantlet; while Boabdil himself (right foreground) appears to wear some form of thickly quilted jerkin or scale-lined armour. (in situ Choir of the Cathedral, Toledo, Spain)
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