week’s readings dealt with the art of Jewish, Early Christian, and Islamic communities. View the video narrated by Islamic art curator Deniz Beyazit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City at http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/getting-lost and read the information on the website of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in the supplemental readings for this week (http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/calligraphy-in-islamic-art/). Since Islam prohibits the use of human figures in religious contexts, what decorative motifs are used instead? Explain how they are used in two specific examples of religious art and architecture.
