While in Islamic Art, the traditions of calligraphy, vegetal ornament, and geometric patterning are strongly expressed in most pieces on view. ... The two pieces of art have differences in the use of shapes and colors. ... The Byzantine painting is simpler; it has fewer amounts of shapes and difficult drawings. Instead, it is more natural, not so geometrically perfect, the shapes aren't the square, triangle or circle, is like painted with inspiration. ... Meanwhile the Islamic piece is geometrically perfect, has a lot of details, it has straight lines, squares, rectangles, triangles, etc....

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"Dedicated to worship; holy" is Webster's definition of the word Sacred. My idea of a sacred place is any location I can meditate, worship, prey and/or speak to God. It does not have to be a special room or in front of an alter. All I need is to have a since of solitude, peace and quite....

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