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Creation Year
January 1967
Image ID
B.062
Alternate Identifier
B02.062
Subcollection
B: Mosques of Isfahan
Abstract
A pointed barrel-vault with an exquisitely decorated soffit. Note the increasing presence of the color yellow in the tile decoration employed in this part of the building. For a general commentary on the tile decoration, see B.52. -MA
Description
A pointed barrel-vault with an exquisitely decorated soffit. Note the increasing presence of the color yellow in the tile decoration employed in this part of the building. For a general commentary on the tile decoration, see B.52. -MA
Image Notes
Photograph created 1967. Photograph processed September 1967. Formerly cataloged as B.02.062. Notes written on the slide or index: Masjid-i-Shah.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Isfahan, Iran
Keywords
Barrel Vault, Vaulting, Arches, Pointed Arches, Columns, Engaged Columns, Tiles, Seventeenth Century, Safavid, Shah Mosque of Isfahan
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