The tiles didn't just remain in Europe—they traveled with explorers, adorning homes and official buildings in colonies from Cuba to Peru. In these distant lands, azulejos were reshaped by local tastes ...

She chose the placement of every tile ... been viewed as Islamic art’s most exalted subject, and Shangri La is everywhere embellished with Koranic calligraphy and geometric abstractions.

art is found in a lot but not all art from the Islamic world. Plant-like decorations are also a common design. This 15th century mosaic tile features plant and floral designs Nature is often an ...

As a result of the prohibition of such depictions in most Sunni Muslim schools of thought, geometric patterns came to be widely prevalent in Islamic art ... whose mosaic tiles, assembled by ...