The Madrasa Court
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black with a mount · Medina, Marrakech · Rebuilt 1564
Black · actual frame finishProdigi’s product photograph. Flat 20 mm face, 22 mm depth, with a snow-white mount.
The complete artwork fits inside your selected size and mount, with white space where proportions differ. Screen colours and regional dimensions can vary slightly.
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What arrives in the box
- Moulding
- Classic satin-laminated wood, 20 mm face and 22 mm depth
- Glaze
- Acrylic / Perspex, matching the exact framed SKU we order
- Mount
- 2.4 mm snow-white conservation board, sustainably sourced and acid-free
- Mount width
- About 50 mm on every side, derived from the live artwork area
- Paper
- Enhanced Matte Art paper, 200 gsm, printed giclée
- Hanging
- Delivered framed and ready to hang, with a Cobra hook at these sizes
When prints reopen
- Giclée on 200gsm enhanced matte art paper
- Produced to order by our print partner and posted to you
- Framing is optional, and framed prints arrive ready to hang
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About this composition
Three storeys of student cells around one courtyard, and every surface a different discipline: zellij to shoulder height, carved stucco above it, cedar above that. The tile is where the geometry lives. A maâlem cuts each piece from a fired blank with a sharpened hammer, bevelled so the glaze catches and the joint disappears, and he does it from memory because there is no drawing.
A living tradition
Read the cultural provenance
This comes from a craft people still practise. It is nobody's private property and it is not nobody's work either: it was cut, over centuries, by maâlems whose names were rarely recorded — a trade passed from master to apprentice rather than written down. We say so rather than call it anonymous.
This is one of the seventeen places you can have your own animal painted into. Paint your pet here, or read about the place.
A contemporary Berbernest composition. Save it to revisit while prints are unavailable.
