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Creator

Denis Baly

Creation Year

January 1967

Image ID

B.075

Alternate Identifier

B02.075

Subcollection

B: Mosques of Isfahan

Abstract

Exterior view of the dome of the Shah Mosque from within the madrasa courtyard.

Description

"The exterior of the sanctuary dome is covered with spiraling beige arabesque on a light blue ground. The enormous dome (external diameter 25 meters; height 52 meters) is raised on a sixteen-sided zone of transition and a tall drum. It has a double shell, for the bulbous exterior dome rises some fourteen meters above the interior hemisphere, an arrangement also derived from Timurid prototypes. Despite its large size, it seems to float above the other domed roofs of the mosque, which are left plain" (189). -MA

References

Blair, Sheila S., and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250–1800. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994.

Image Notes

Photograph created 1967. Photograph processed September 1967. Formerly cataloged as B.02.075. Notes written on the slide or index: Masjid-i-Shah.

Image Format

35 mm slide

Geographic Reference

Isfahan, Iran

Keywords

Dome, Bulbous Dome, Arches, Pointed Arches, Lattice Windows, Inscription, Quranic Inscription, Arabic Inscription, Thuluth Script, Tiles, Seventeenth Century, Safavid, Shah Mosque of Isfahan

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