INFLUENCES OF

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Mosaics
- is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage
of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other
materials.

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Frieze
- is the wide central section part of
an entablature and may be plain in the ionic or doric
order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Arabesque
- is a form of artistic decoration consisting of surface
decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of
scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils or plain
lines, often combined with other elements.

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Horseshoe
- also called the moorish arch and the keyhole arch, is
the emblematic arch of moorish architecture.
Horseshoe arches can take rounded, pointed or lobed
form.

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Hypostyle
- hall has a roof which is supported by columns.

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Minaret
- "lighthouse", also known as Goldast, is a distinctive
architectural structure akin to a tower and typically
found adjacent to mosques.

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Dome
- is an architectural element that resembles the hollow
upper half of a sphere.

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Motif
- is an element of an image. A motif may be repeated
in a pattern or design, often many times, or may just
occur once in a work.

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Mathematical themes
- ordered repetition, radiating structures, and
rhythmic, metric patterns.

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