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Florence and the Middle East. A Cultural Arabesque
What is widely known in the Western world as Arabesque refers of an artistic representation of the interminable order and unison of nature that leads to infinity. Epigraphic, geometric and floral figures are meticulously brought together to form a pattern that repeats itself seemingly endlessly. If we dare to look close enough, the notion of an unbreakable continuity will appear almost naturally in the designs of many of the art pieces elaborated in the islamic art
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