There's nothing austere or restrained about the decorative scheme on the interior surfaces in the 13th century Church of Bet Maryam.
Stylized leaves and flowers intermingled with complex and lively ge
Carved arches and decorated capitals inside Bet Maryam display an exuberant mix of stylized leaves, flowers, and geometric patterns. Every surface was chiseled from the same continuous mass of rock, with no added material. © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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