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DECORATIONS
ROOTS OF ISLAMIC
DECORATIONS
• Representation of human and animal forms was
discouraged
– Only God is worthy of creating living things
– One who represents a living thing is competitor of God
FOLIATION
GEOMETRIC
PATTERNS
CALLIGRAPHY
DEVELOPMENT
OF
DECORATIONS
THE DOME OF THE ROCK
مسجدالقصی
THE DOME OF THE ROCK
• Jerusalem
• 691 A.D
• First major artistic endeavor of Islamic world
• Earliest surviving Islamic monument
• A monument over a sacred rock
NATURAL
DECORATIONS
• Damascus, Syria
• 706 A.D
• one of the earliest surviving mosques
Details of the mosaic decorations, Umayyad mosque
foliation
Some examples
of Arabesque
decorative style
geometric
patterns
triangle
based
patterns
square based
patterns
1
rotatio 2
n rotatio
ns
3
rotatio 4
ns rotatio
ns
calligraphy
principles for generating
patterns
• repetition
• symmetry
• change of scale
combination of
decorations
QUESTIONS?