Escher's painstaking study of the same Moorish tiling in the Alhambra, 1936, demonstrates his growing interest in tessellation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher#/media/File:Escher_Alhambra_Tessellation_Sketch.jpg
I took an Islamic Art History course once and I vaugely recall the teacher talking about how the inconsistent taboo around drawing people lead to the development of all kinds of cool geometric patterns and stuff.
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