#islamicart — Public Fediverse posts

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

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
https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.348

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

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.

#IslamicGeometry #IslamicArt #IslamicGeometricArt

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

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

Another pretty large zellij mosaic with a big fat 24-pointed star pattern at its centre. Pretty radial.

#maths #geometric #islamicart #adobeillustrator #islamicgeometricpatterns

Some other stills of the Icosahedron I did today

#islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #geometric #autocad

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

Rapid speedpaint of an Ottoman-style geometry found across Syrian mosques.

#islamicart #graphicdesign #adobeillustrator #vectorart #maths #speedpaint #geometry

Some of my favourite laser engraved paper prototypes that helped me imagine and realise my final pieces!

#laserengraving #islamicgeometricdesign #islamicgeometricpatterns #islamicart #lightburn #lightburnsoftware #vectordesign

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