"Papagallo"
Jose Manuel Solares
Under Relief - 26 Inches x 20 Inches
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Relieve of Islamic calligraphy in a potato. Pakistan, Lahore Central Museum. The development of calligraphy as art is linked to the fact that Islam prohibits the worship of figurative representations and is thus the calligraphy offers in sacred places a substitute for figurative decoration. Instead of representing God or the prophet, or any other figurative motive related to religion, Islamic art replaces them by the calligraphic representation of their names, or by phrases extracted from the Quran.
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