page_title: Hexadecagon
section_title: In art
hierarchical_section_title: Hexadecagon / In art
caption_attribution_description: close up of nasride mosaïcs with symbol of Carlos V, Alhambra, Granada, Spain
context_page_description: In mathematics, a hexadecagon is a sixteen-sided polygon.
context_section_description: In the early 16th century, Raphael was the first to construct a perspective image of a regular hexadecagon: the tower in his painting The Marriage of the Virgin has 16 sides, elaborating on an eight-sided tower in a previous painting by Pietro Perugino.
  Hexadecagrams (16-sided star polygons) are included in the Girih patterns in the Alhambra.
caption: A hexadecagrammic pattern from the Alhambra
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