Visual and S‌tructural Analysis of Fractal Geometry in the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque Ornaments (Isfahan- Iran)

Subject Areas : Architecture

Hengame Rezazade ¹

1 - M.A., Department of Arts and Architecture, Yadegar-e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2020-09-21 Accepted : 2020-11-12 Published : 2021-01-01

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