EditorialAltar Curtain with Ten Apostles and Two?Evangelists, 18th19th?century, Printed cotton, 80 1/2 ? 30 5/8 in. (204.5 ? 77.8?cm), This printed altar cloth served the Armenian Christian community in the New Julfa district of Isfahan, in Iran. Placed under a...
EditorialInterior of the Great Mosque, (Ulucami) Bursa, Turkey, John Frederick Lewis, 18041876, British, between 1840 and 1841, Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 11 x 17 inches ...
EditorialElement from a Stalactite Squinch (Muqarnas), 10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Stucco; painted, H. 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm), Stucco, Probably originally part of a muqarnas, or stalactite squinch, this and other muqarnas elements would have been s...
EditorialElement from a Stalactite Squinch (Muqarnas), 10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Stucco; painted, H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm), Stucco, Probably originally part of a muqarnas, or stalactite squinch, this and other muqarnas elements would have been s...