Tiered Arches

Abstract

Closeup of a small segment of the "forty-two rectangular panel-like units of two superposed tiers of arches" in the central courtyard of the mosque. (141).

References
Oleg Grabar, Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), 141.
Image Notes

Photograph created 1963. Processing date unknown. Formerly cataloged as B.02.017. Notes written on the slide or index: Friday Mosque.

Identifier B.017
Collection B: Mosques of Isfahan
Location Isfahan, Iran
Year 1963
Keywords Arches,
Lattice Windows,
Pointed Arches,
Iwan,
Red Slides,
Courtyard of Friday Mosque,
Written Date 1963
Slide Notes Friday Mosque
Index Notes Friday Mosque
General Location Friday Mosque of Isfahan
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