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Creation Year
January 1967
Image ID
B.063
Alternate Identifier
B02.063
Subcollection
B: Mosques of Isfahan
Description
A pointed barrel-vault with an exquisitely decorated soffit and alfiz (the rectangular panel enclosing the outer side of an arch). 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.02.063. 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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