More Pictures from the Alhambra

I have had more time to post some more pictures from the Alhambra and other places we saw in Spain.   When I look at these pictures, I am struck by the sheer excess of ornamentation and decoration; no wonder that the experience of seeing these places in person was overwhelming.  
In the meantime, I have read Robert Irwin's lively and informative book about the Alhambra, which discusses not only the history and construction of the Alhambra, but deconstructs its cultural history in subsequent European society and art.

The pictures below for the most part focus on details of the ornamentation.   It's almost impossible to render the sensation of actually being in the space, though, and feeling the proportions of the architecture.

A ceiling:

A ceiling:

A ceiling:

These ceilings seem very different; they were located in a transitional corridor: