azulejos del Patio de las Doncellas, Palacio Medéjar (Spain)

You’re in the south of Spain - Seville, precisely - and you know you’re going to get some great Arab art! This is a detail from the azulejos tiles in the Patio de las Doncellas in the Mudejar Palace. Carved into the fountain is the great poem from Ibn Zamrak: For are there not in this garden wonders that God has made incomparable in their beauty, and a sculpture of pearls, which it resembles in its pure dawn, with a transparent light, the borders of which are trimmed with seed pearls.”