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Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s incredible dagger is set with nearly 2,000 of the finest diamonds, rubies and emeralds, all mounted into a hilt of pure gold.
On display at the Wallace collection in London.
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Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s incredible dagger is set with nearly 2,000 of the finest diamonds, rubies and emeralds, all mounted into a hilt of pure gold.
On display at the Wallace collection in London.
#mughalempire #indianhistory #shahjahan #islamicart #globalmuseum #museums #weaponry -
For the First Time, a Selection of Islamic Masterpieces From the Louvre Is Coming to the United States.
See the Treasures Soon to Be Displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
Twenty-six works spanning many centuries and regions will form the September exhibition titled “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art”.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/for-the-first-time-a-selection-of-islamic-masterpieces-from-the-louvre-is-coming-to-the-united-states-see-the-treasures-soon-to-be-displayed-at-the-smithsonians-national-museum-of-asian-art-180989402/ #globalmuseum #museums #IslamicArt -
For the First Time, a Selection of Islamic Masterpieces From the Louvre Is Coming to the United States.
See the Treasures Soon to Be Displayed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
Twenty-six works spanning many centuries and regions will form the September exhibition titled “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art”.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/for-the-first-time-a-selection-of-islamic-masterpieces-from-the-louvre-is-coming-to-the-united-states-see-the-treasures-soon-to-be-displayed-at-the-smithsonians-national-museum-of-asian-art-180989402/ #globalmuseum #museums #IslamicArt -
The lid of this globular box gleams with turquoise, garnet, and gold inlay, arranged in precise radiating petals. Such lavish ornament suggests a vessel meant to hold not just objects, but status—perhaps for cosmetics or relics in a royal household. What does the absence of figural imagery reveal about the culture that crafted it?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #IslamicArt #LuxuryCraftsmanship
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A dome in the Magok-i-Attari Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
‘one of the oldest surviving mosques in Central Asia and one of the few surviving buildings in Bukhara from the time before the Mongol invasion. … Today, the mosque is used as a carpet museum. …
The floor of the mosque is about 4.50 meters below the Earth's surface. This is the reason for the mosque being called 'maghākī' which is Persian for "in a ditch" or "in a pit".’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magok-i-Attari_Mosque
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #TravelPhotography #design #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #IslamicGeometricDesign #Mosque #Bukhara #Uzbekistan
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A dome in the Magok-i-Attari Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
‘one of the oldest surviving mosques in Central Asia and one of the few surviving buildings in Bukhara from the time before the Mongol invasion. … Today, the mosque is used as a carpet museum. …
The floor of the mosque is about 4.50 meters below the Earth's surface. This is the reason for the mosque being called 'maghākī' which is Persian for "in a ditch" or "in a pit".’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magok-i-Attari_Mosque
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #TravelPhotography #design #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #IslamicGeometricDesign #Mosque #Bukhara #Uzbekistan
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Started a new construction last night.
'This can't possibly be as difficult as the previous one,' I thought smugly.
'This one's much simpler! It's just some rosettes and decagons!' I continued, confidently.
Guess how it's been going.
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Started a new construction last night.
'This can't possibly be as difficult as the previous one,' I thought smugly.
'This one's much simpler! It's just some rosettes and decagons!' I continued, confidently.
Guess how it's been going.
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Fun radial tiling I've been working on. Trying to build up how many lines of symmetry I'm capable of aligning with traditional Islamic geometric patterns
#islamicart #islamicgeometricpatterns #art #geometric #adobeillustrator
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The completed pattern, now painted. THis is Pattern 99 from volume 3 of from Serap Ekizler Sönmez's 3-volume masterpiece, 'The Geometric Language of Anatolian Seljuk Art' (Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili)
I do not speak or read Turkish, but the diagrams are excellent*, and an OCR app + Google Translate gets me the rest of the way there.
*except the 'Draw the rest of the owl' bits: https://wandering.shop/@ergative/116416351813082182)
#IslamicGeometricArt #IslamicArt #humanArt #artistsOfMastodon
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The completed pattern, now painted. THis is Pattern 99 from volume 3 of from Serap Ekizler Sönmez's 3-volume masterpiece, 'The Geometric Language of Anatolian Seljuk Art' (Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatının Geometrik Dili)
I do not speak or read Turkish, but the diagrams are excellent*, and an OCR app + Google Translate gets me the rest of the way there.
*except the 'Draw the rest of the owl' bits: https://wandering.shop/@ergative/116416351813082182)
#IslamicGeometricArt #IslamicArt #humanArt #artistsOfMastodon
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Another pretty large zellij mosaic with a big fat 24-pointed star pattern at its centre. Pretty radial.
#maths #geometric #islamicart #adobeillustrator #islamicgeometricpatterns
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Another pretty large zellij mosaic with a big fat 24-pointed star pattern at its centre. Pretty radial.
#maths #geometric #islamicart #adobeillustrator #islamicgeometricpatterns
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Some other stills of the Icosahedron I did today
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Some other stills of the Icosahedron I did today
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Icosahedron with perfect Islamic geometric symmetry. Trying to make use of colours that make the work pop instead of resorting to black/white or wood-based colours.
#islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #geometric #3D #illustrator #polyhedra
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Icosahedron with perfect Islamic geometric symmetry. Trying to make use of colours that make the work pop instead of resorting to black/white or wood-based colours.
#islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #geometric #3D #illustrator #polyhedra
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Rapid speedpaint of an Ottoman-style geometry found across Syrian mosques.
#islamicart #graphicdesign #adobeillustrator #vectorart #maths #speedpaint #geometry
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Rapid speedpaint of an Ottoman-style geometry found across Syrian mosques.
#islamicart #graphicdesign #adobeillustrator #vectorart #maths #speedpaint #geometry
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Some of my favourite laser engraved paper prototypes that helped me imagine and realise my final pieces!
#laserengraving #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #lightburn #lightburnsoftware #vectordesign
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Some of my favourite laser engraved paper prototypes that helped me imagine and realise my final pieces!
#laserengraving #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #lightburn #lightburnsoftware #vectordesign
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More work from my Final Major Project at Arts University Plymouth. These mesmerising pieces are made up of meticulously inlaid veneers of wood that are inserted into laser engraved plywood.
Each artwork was initially digitally drawn up by me over many many hours which then were transferred into a usable format to be laser engraved - which took another 5 and a half hours!
The work is greatly inspired by computer scientist/mathematician Craig S Kaplan (@csk) and his generative zellij work. My work displays that the algorithmic potential of Islamic Geometric Patterns and the time-tested traditions of woodcrafts can belong together in an artistic context.
#IslamicGeometricPatterns #IslamicArt #AlgorithmicArt #woodworking #laserengraving #lasercutting #inlaywood
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More work from my Final Major Project at Arts University Plymouth. These mesmerising pieces are made up of meticulously inlaid veneers of wood that are inserted into laser engraved plywood.
Each artwork was initially digitally drawn up by me over many many hours which then were transferred into a usable format to be laser engraved - which took another 5 and a half hours!
The work is greatly inspired by computer scientist/mathematician Craig S Kaplan (@csk) and his generative zellij work. My work displays that the algorithmic potential of Islamic Geometric Patterns and the time-tested traditions of woodcrafts can belong together in an artistic context.
#IslamicGeometricPatterns #IslamicArt #AlgorithmicArt #woodworking #laserengraving #lasercutting #inlaywood
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Here are a few piece of my work towards my Final Major Project at university. Inspired by works by Dana Awartani, this work is the ultimate culmination of my time studying Craft/Materials at AUP in Plymouth and was displayed during the Graduate Summer Show last year.
I thank @trinityfranklinphoto over on Instagram for helping me assemble some of these pieces and photographing them. She is a star and I'm truly fortunate to have someone of that talent in my life
#islamicart #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #inlaywood #laserengraving #lasercutting #crafts
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Here are a few piece of my work towards my Final Major Project at university. Inspired by works by Dana Awartani, this work is the ultimate culmination of my time studying Craft/Materials at AUP in Plymouth and was displayed during the Graduate Summer Show last year.
I thank @trinityfranklinphoto over on Instagram for helping me assemble some of these pieces and photographing them. She is a star and I'm truly fortunate to have someone of that talent in my life
#islamicart #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #inlaywood #laserengraving #lasercutting #crafts
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My latest for @TheTimesofCentralAsia federated.press rare Central Asian masterpieces go on show at Sotheby's London, revealing centuries of craft, power, and cultural exchange https://timesca.com/silver-silk-and-forgotten-power-central-asias-islamic-past-comes-to-london/ #IslamicArt #SilkRoad #ArtMarket #CulturalHeritage #auction #CentralAsia #Sothebys
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My latest for @TheTimesofCentralAsia federated.press rare Central Asian masterpieces go on show at Sotheby's London, revealing centuries of craft, power, and cultural exchange https://timesca.com/silver-silk-and-forgotten-power-central-asias-islamic-past-comes-to-london/ #IslamicArt #SilkRoad #ArtMarket #CulturalHeritage #auction #CentralAsia #Sothebys
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Serap Ekizler Sonmez's books on Islamic geometry are great fun to work through, because they assume a baseline level of familiarity with geometric construction, so often there are missing steps that I have to figure out myself. Usually I can do that. Sometimes, however, it really does feel like 'draw the rest of the fucking owl'.
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Serap Ekizler Sonmez's books on Islamic geometry are great fun to work through, because they assume a baseline level of familiarity with geometric construction, so often there are missing steps that I have to figure out myself. Usually I can do that. Sometimes, however, it really does feel like 'draw the rest of the fucking owl'.
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An external tiling, Brick Lane Mosque, London
The whole tiling can light up at night (there's a photo near the end of https://bricklanejammemasjid.org.uk/gallery)
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #mosque
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An external tiling, Brick Lane Mosque, London
The whole tiling can light up at night (there's a photo near the end of https://bricklanejammemasjid.org.uk/gallery)
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #mosque
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Gilded brass gleams under engraved bands of Arabic verse, its surface alive with scrolling foliage and sharp, angular script. This jug, a vessel of both war and peace, flaunts power in the language of poetry—how many unseen hands once lifted it in triumph?
#IslamicArt #Metalwork #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.22 -
Inside a building of the Shah-i-Zinda ensemble, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Samarkand #Uzbekistan #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt
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Inside a building of the Shah-i-Zinda ensemble, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Samarkand #Uzbekistan #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt
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Tiling by a door, Chefchaouen, Morocco
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Chefchaouen #Morocco #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #zellij #zellige
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Tiling by a door, Chefchaouen, Morocco
#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Chefchaouen #Morocco #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #zellij #zellige
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Witness the elegance of a 13th-century Islamic jug at #ClevelandMuseumofArt, a rare masterpiece of precious metal adorned with intricate poetry and stunning motifs. This vessel embodies the artistic brilliance of its time. What story do you think it tells?
#IslamicArt #ClevelandArt #HistoricalTreasures
https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.22 -
Islamic geometrical art is justly famous for its mathematical beauty. Here I will point to some documented connections between the artisans who created it and mathematicians.
The mathematician Abū’l-Wafāʾ al-Būzjānī (940–77/8 CE) wrote in a book on geometry useful for craftsmen (more on this later) that he had been present at discussions between artisans and geometers. Al-Khayyāmī (Omar Khayyam; c.1048–c.1131), the father of algebra, wrote of attending such a meeting. Caʿfer Efendi (fl. early 17th century) wrote of discussions between ‘learned men’ and architects on the subject of geometry.
Another connection is in the person Abu’l-Faḍl ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm (d. 1202/3), whom Ibn abi Uṣaybiʿah recorded as having been called ‘the geometrician’ for his famed knowledge of geometry. He was by profession a carpenter and stonemason. He studied Euclid to improve his carpentry; he then proceeded to Ptolemy’s ‘Almagest’ and became an authority in geometry. His skill is evident in the doors he made for the Bīmaristān Nūr al-Dīn in Damascus, which have upon them a geometrical pattern of hexagons and pentagrams made up of brass nails (the design is shown in the attached image).
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#geometry #MathArt #aesthetics #MathematicalBeauty #tiling #IslamicArt