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- Mosque of Selim II (Selimiye Cami)
- Era: Islamic, 1568-1575
- Location: Edirne, Turkey
- Techniques:
- earhtly squareness of the gathering place of the faithful under the canopy of eternity
- dome and minarets resemble a cnaopy
- can see mihrab from anywhere inside, very open interior
- massive dome set off by pencil shaped minarets more than 200 ft tall
- numerous annexes
- libraries school, bath houses, soup kitchen, hospital, cemeteries
- utilitariean buildings built around it and axially aligned with it
- landscape linked with architecture in planting of shrubs
- preceded by a rectangular court almost equal to the building itself
- allows more window illumination - creates glowing lightoctagon with dome covered square
- 8 massive dome supports
- fluidity of gemoetric volumes that unifies the open space
- climax of Ottoman architecture
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- Great Mosque at Isfahan
- Era: Islamic, 11th-17th century
- Location: Iran
- Techniques:
- 2 storied arcade on either side around courtyard
- four iwans opening onto courtyard
- squinched arches on side
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- Winter Prayer Hall of the Shahi (Imam) Mosque
- Era: Islamic, 1611-1638
- Location: Isfahan, Iran
- Techniques:
- slightly curved cureda secca tiles - cover walls, arhces, and squinch-like vaults
- organic design
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- Carpet from the Tomb-Mausoleum of Shah Tahmasp
- Era: Islamic, 1540
- Location: Ardabil, Iraq
- Techniques:
- found in a funerary mosque
- carpet weaving elevated to national industry
- weavers wove their name into the design of the carpet
- 25 million knots, 340 knotts to every square inch
- central sunburst medallion inside a dome surrounded by 16 pendants
- 2 mosque lamps suspended from pendants on the long axisfunerary lamps of different sizes - optical device to make them appear equal in side when looking at it from one end
- blue background covered in leaves and flowers with delicate stems
- illusion for a heavenly dome
- reflection of ceiling on water
- flowers are lotuses sitting on surface
- no humans
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- Laila and Majnun at School
- Era: Islamic, 1524-1525
- Location: Manuscript of Khamsa of Nizami
- Techniques:
- ink, colors, and gold on paper
- illustrating Nizami's romantic poems
- school is inside a mosque
- earnest aspects of life
- teacher seated on rug wearing turban
- rod in hand as he is listening to a youth read
- students are supposed to be studying
- seated on knees and heels with one knee raised
- desks for books are x shaped
- no recession into space
- figures stacked on top in rows
- in center are Lila and Majnun
- lively scene and setting
- figuration is a simple outline
- sharp colored shapes
- two-dimensional space
- parallel lines - perspective is off
- weaving and patterns
- organic design
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