March 22, 2016

Amasya, Turkey. September, 2014


Islamic art tends to shun the figurative. Stylized tulips occasionally. But you're not likely to find images of saints as you do in Western religious art. Instead, the illustrations tend toward beautiful geometric patterns and florid script. Here's but one example, this on one of a mosque complex's outbuildings in a mountain town in central Turkey.

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