Stucco decoration in Islamic architecture refers to carved or molded stucco and plaster. The terms "stucco" and "plaster" are used almost interchangeably...

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam. It encompasses both secular and religious styles from the early...

ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture. Stucco can be applied on construction materials such as metal, expanded...

constructed in brick, with decoration created using brickwork, tiles, and carved stucco. The Seljuk Turks created the Great Seljuk Empire in the 11th century...

Ilkhanid architecture was a period in Iranian and Islamic architecture corresponding with the Mongol-ruled Ilkhanate in and around the region of Iran....

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Their architectural style was also distinguished by increasingly elaborate decoration, which began with pre-existing traditions like stucco and glass...

common in Islamic architecture generally and across Moorish architecture. These are found in carved stucco and wood decoration, and most notably in zellij...

pointed arches. The arches are decorated with carved stucco, though not all of the original decoration has been preserved. The mosque is surrounded by an...

Abbasid architecture included the use of brick vaulting and stucco decoration. Barrel vaulting, which had already been in use in Umayyad architecture and...

adorned with tadelakt plaster, stucco decoration, and zellij tiles, sometimes with Arabic calligraphy and quotes from the Quran. In recent years there has been...

located in Granada, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world...

wood, and stucco. It is generally accepted by scholars that Mudéjar art in architecture first appeared in the northern town of Sahagún in the 12th century...

a representation of an important Islamic figure according to many holy scriptures. The geometric designs in Islamic art are often built on combinations...

in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from Arabic: مقربص, romanized: muqarbaṣ), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which...

modern architecture and interior decoration in the Islamic world makes use of motifs and elements drawn from the heritage of Islamic art. Islamic culture...

extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent. It developed from the architectural styles of earlier Indo-Islamic architecture and from Iranian and...

residents featured decoration typical of Moroccan architecture and medieval Moorish architecture, including carved and painted wood, carved stucco, and zellij...

in wood, carved stucco, and zellij tilework. Although Moroccan Amazigh architecture is not strictly separate from the rest of Moroccan architecture,...

Byzantine Empire, but introduced innovations in decoration and form. Under Umayyad patronage, Islamic architecture began to mature and acquire traditions of...

Islamic ornament is the use of decorative forms and patterns in Islamic art and Islamic architecture. Its elements can be broadly divided into the arabesque...

Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture...

term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative...

Eleventh Century: Investigations into Stucco Decoration". Muqarnas, an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. 26. Leiden: Brill: 349–376. ISBN 978-90-04-17589-1...

covered in stucco decoration before transitioning into wooden elements, including ornately-carved eaves. The arches of the ground-floor galleries in the courtyard...

complex ornamental arcades, multifoil and mixtilinear arches, and stucco decoration. In other cities, a number of important palaces or fortresses were begun...

attention of stucco detail in abstract design and extensive use of parapets. One to two storey buildings. Examples in the architecture of the Yamma Mosque...

of "Moorish" or western Islamic architecture, establishing many of the forms and motifs that defined architectural styles in the region during the subsequent...

Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white...

Montéquin, François-Auguste (1991). "Arches in the Architecture of Muslim Spain: Typology and Evolution". Islamic Studies. 30 (1/2): 67–82. Ragette, Friedrich...