Regular Division of the Plane is a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936. These images are based on the principle of tessellation, irregular shapes or combinations of
Regular Division of the Plane III, woodcut, 1957 - 1958.
Marble floor mosaic Basilica of St Mark Vencice
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The term Moor is an exonym used in European languages to designate primarily the Muslim populations of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
Regular Division of the Plane
…that interlock completely to cover a surface or plane. The inspiration for these works began in 1936 with a visit to the Alhambra, a fourteenth-century Moorish castle near Granada, Spain. Escher had visited the Alhambra once before in 1922 but in this visit he had spent several days studying and sketching the…
Depiction of Muslim army in Iberia, from The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Miniature from Alfonso X's Book of chess, dice and boards, completed in 1283, showing Muslims from Andalusia playing chess. Europeans loosely called the Muslims Moors, blending the name for both people of Arab, Berber, or other ancestry.
The Moors request permission from James I of Aragón, from Cantigas de Santa Maria
Illustration of Muslim musician (left) alongside a Christian musician (right) in a codice of the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria