Mudejar art flourishes in Toledo
1242
Under Castilian rule, Muslim craftsmen known as mudejars built palaces and synagogues that wedded Iberian Islamic ornament to Christian patronage. The Santa Maria la Blanca synagogue, finished around this time, is a brick-walled forest of horseshoe arches made for a Jewish congregation. The coexistence of three faiths under one artistic tradition produced a hybrid visual culture found nowhere else in medieval Europe.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.