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Creator

Denis Baly

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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