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Creation Year
January 1963
Image ID
B.083
Alternate Identifier
B02.083
Subcollection
B: Mosques of Isfahan
Abstract
The muqarnas-adorned mihrab in the interior of the mosque.
Description
The mihrab is the only part of the interior that Baly has photographed, but the rest of the interior is much more remarkable. This is what Blair and Bloom say about it: "The visual and psychological impact on entering the vast, glowing room ... is stunning, for it is probably the most perfectly balanced interior in all of Persian architecture" (185). -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 1963. Processing date unknown. Formerly cataloged as B.02.083. Notes written on the slide or index: Sh. Lotfollah.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Isfahan, Iran
Keywords
Mihrab, Tiles, Muqarnas, Inscription, Quranic Inscription, Arabic Inscription, Thuluth Script, Arches, Pointed Arches, Seventeenth Century, Safavid, Shaykh Lutfallah Mosque
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