arXiv: Moore, Escher, Penrose: A Conformal Golden Braid I don't think I have ever done anything as peculiar in my life. Among other things, it shows a young man looking with interest at a print on the wall of an exhibition that features himself. How can this be? Perhaps I am not far removed from Einstein's curved universe.'' So wrote M.C. Escher about his 1956 lithograph Print Gallery. Nearly half a century later, a mathematical analysis related its geometry to an untwisted source image through a conformal power map $z \mapsto z^α$, $α\in \mathbb{C}$