Leeuwarden
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Leeuwarden is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 127,073. It is the provincial capital and seat of the Provincial Council of Friesland.
Nieuwestad Leeuwarden
Waag, Leeuwarden 1620
Paleis van Justitie, Wilhelminaplein, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden 8262
Oldehove 1584
M. C. Escher
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Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Esche
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Escher in 1971
Escher's birth house, now part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum, in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands
Moorish tessellations including this one at the Alhambra inspired Escher's work with tilings of the plane. He made sketches of this and other Alhambra patterns in 1936.
Escher's painstaking study of the same Moorish tiling in the Alhambra, 1936, demonstrates his growing interest in tessellation.