Light filtered through a 17th-century white marble jali screen, and an intricate geometric pattern illuminated the floor. The jali screen, part of the Walters Art Museum’s “Pearls on a String: Artists ...

The premise of “Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts” seems so intuitive that it takes awhile to realize just how ambitious this show is. Organized by the ...