The aesthetics of the Decoration of metal Antiques In Al -Kafeel Museum

The current study labeled with (The aesthetics of the decoration of the metal antiques in Al-Kafeel Museum), dealt with the philosophical statements of beauty in general and the mechanisms of work in the decoration of Islamic Arts. We do not forget the importance of international museums in their care and preservation of the identity, in particular the AL-Kafeel Museum, which owns thousands of museum treasures from metal and glass utensils, weapons, doors, ornaments, manuscripts, hand carpets, candlesticks, coins and others.

The current study included four chapters, the first of which contained the methodological framework represented by the problem of research and the need for it; whose importance came from the importance of its problem, which highlighted the aesthetics of Islamic art and decorative art in particular; as well as the absence of a previous study of the novelty of the subject and contained the goal of research labeled (identify the aesthetic decoration of metal antiques in AL-Kafeel Museum). While the borders were limited to various metal antiques of the period (379 Ah /989 ad) (455 Ah/1085 ad) in the Arab region .As well as previous studies.

The second chapter included the theoretical framework, which contained the first section (the concept of beauty in philosophical thought) Greek and Islamic, while the second section (The Art of decoration – references, characteristics and features ) .While the third section came under the title (Islamic Arts-properties and elements), down to the fourth section (museums and their impact on the development of sensory taste).The third chapter contains the research procedures, including the research community of (100) models, its sample, its descriptive and analytical methodology, and the analysis of its sample of (12) metal models .The fourth chapter included a presentation of the results of the research, its conclusions, recommendations and suggestions and the most prominent results:

-The artist relied in the formation of his decorative scenes on his metal antiques  in AL-Kafeel Museum on the unification of overlapping and adjacent decorative elements according to an ideal mental vision by abstraction.

-The aesthetics of the decoration carried out with the mechanisms of installation, symmetry and overlay on the metal antiques in the Museum of AL-Kafeel to express a mentally escalating dialectic approaching the main source of light.

The study concluded with a bibliography of sources, appendixes and a translated summary.