Byzantium's artisans developed and refined earlier mosaic patterns for religious as well as ornamental purposes. Geometrical motifs were popular, and so were animal and vegetal ones. They were to profoundly influence Islamic art under the ʾUmayyād and beyond.
Photo: ʿĀbid īsā.
ʿĀbid īsā. A Guide to the National Museum of Damascus 2006.
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