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Denis Baly

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B02.082

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The dome of the Shaykh Lutfallah Mosque. It "has a modest pointed-arch profile" and "is covered with an unusual design of ocher-colored arabesques and its center is displaced some 6.5 meters to the right of the entrance axis" (185). (For more detail on the Shaykh Lutfallah Mosque, see B02.076). -MA (Source: Blair, Sheila S., and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250–1800. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994.)

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Esfahan, Iran

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