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Muqarnas

Scope note

Use for the network of small, repeated cellular forms resembling bottomless niches and sometimes corbeled and structural, more often suspended and decorative, which form the undersurfaces of vaults and domes common in Islamic architecture.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300081762

Broader Terms used

<surface elements>

Created

13yrs ago

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