Impeccable craftsmanship and numerical attention to detail have long been hallmarks of historical Islamic art, from the ...
A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha ... its "essence", which he believed he found most compellingly in the 9th-century ...
Examples of Islamic art can be found on objects and in places such as on prayer mats, ornaments and in mosques. Calligraphy is a type of decorative handwriting. There is lots of calligraphy in the ...
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural ... Additional examples of these more classical mosques can be found in Lauingen, Pforzheim, Wesseling, Marl, Darmstadt and Berlin, ...