Squinch and Pendentive

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Squinch and Pendentive

Patricia Blessing

Related Terms:

  • Iwan (tall vaulted gateway)
  • Muqarnas (ornamental molding)
  • Pishtaq (a rectangular frame around an arched opening)

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Ünver Rüstem, “Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 12 October 2020.

Caroline “Olivia” Wolf, “Monumental Mosques in Latin America,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.

References:

Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

Korn, Lorenz. “Dome Chambers of the Saljuq Period. A Multi-faceted Phenomenon of Islamic Art in Iran.” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 39 (2007): 235–260.

Michailidis, Melanie. “Dynastic Politics and the Samanid Mausoleum.” Ars Orientalis 44 (2014): 20–39.

Tabbaa, Yasser. “The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning.” Muqarnas 3 (1985): 61–74.

Citation:

Patricia Blessing, “Squinch and Pendentive,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 15 March 2022.

Patricia Blessing is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Blessing is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Elizabeth Dospel Williams and Eiren Shea, she co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400 for the Cambridge Elements series Global Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Blessing’s work has been supported by the ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Cultures, the Barakat Trust, the British Academy, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians.