William Morris, Islamic art and a reason to fall in love with the ‘enamelled lawn’ again
The Arts and Crafts designer incorporated patterns from Islamic art into carpets, textiles and wallpaper, as an exhibition ...
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An entwining of the past and present: how history and modernity inform Islamic art in the 21st century
What is “Islamic art”? This question has remained open ... The marble columns, brought to Mecca from Greater Syria and Egypt, and adorned with calligraphy by the people of Kufa in Iraq ...
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Jonathan Bloom
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Professor Bloom ... the history of paper, and the art of the Fatimid dynasty in North Africa and Egypt. He has written several books ...