Download or read book A hundred years of excavations in Samarra written by Julia Gonnella and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2014 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin celebrated the 100th anniversary of the German excavations of the Islamic-medieval site Samarra. The former Abbasid capital (836-892 A.D.) around 125 km north of Bagdad is one of the largest archaeological ruins in the world and one of the key sites in the field of Islamic art and archaeology. The excavations led by Ernst Herzfeld and Friedrich Sarre between 1911 and 1913 represent a primary moment in the establishment of the field. Today, a hundred years later, our knowledge on Abbasid art has widened immensely. This volume includes papers given at an international symposium organised by the EHG together with the Museum of Islamic ARt from June 30 to July 02, 2011 to discuss the latest state of research on the former Abbasid city and its impact on Islamic art. Articles touch the history of the excavations, the city of Samarra and its finds as well as other recently studied Abbasid sites.
Download or read book Excavation of Samarra written by Thomas Leisten and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After One Hundred Years written by Andrea Lermer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the path-breaking exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" held in Munich in 1910. It offers new ideas and unpublished material on the exhibition's historical context, organization, display, reception in the West and its later influence on the study of Islamic art.
Download or read book Archaeological Atlas of Samarra written by Alastair Northedge and published by Samarra Studies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeological Atlas of Samarra sets out to map and catalogue the site and buildings of the Abbasid capital at Samarra in the period 836 to 892 AD, preserved as they were until the middle years of the 20th century. Site maps and catalogues are provided of all the approximately 5819 building and site units identified. This is the first time that it has been possible to catalogue nearly all the buildings of one of the world's largest ancient cities, from the caliph palaces to the smallest hovels.
Download or read book Excavations at Samarra 1936 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations at Samarra 1936 1939 written by Iraq. Mudīrīyat al-Āthār al-Qadīmah al-ʻĀmmah and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historical Topography of Samarra written by Alastair Northedge and published by Samarra Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban sites worldwide, but also gives us the essence of what the physical appearance of the caliphate was like, for early Baghdad is long lost. Northedge sets out to explain the history and development of this enormous site, 45 km long, using both archaeological and textual sources to weave a new interpretation of how the city worked: its four caliphal palaces, four Friday mosques, cantonments for the military and for the palace servants, houses for the men of state and generals.
Download or read book A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture written by Finbarr Barry Flood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)
Download or read book Color and Meaning in the Art of Achaemenid Persia written by Alexander Nagel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world.
Download or read book The Brummer Galleries Paris and New York written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first thorough investigation of the Brummer brothers’ remarkable career as dealers in antiques, curiosities and modernism in Paris and New York over six decades (1906-1964). A dozen specialists aggregate their expertise to explore extant dealer records and museum archives, parse the wide-ranging Brummer stock, and assess how objects were sourced, marketed, labelled, restored, and displayed. The research provides insights into emerging collecting fields as they crystallised, at the crossroads between market and museum. It questions the trope of the tastemaker; the translocation of material culture, and the dealers’ prolific relationships with illustrious collectors, curators, scholars, artists, and fellow dealers.
Download or read book Glass of the Sultans written by Stefano Carboni and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that brings together more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking. Included are the principal types of pre-industrial glass from Egypt, the Middle East, and India in a comprehensive array of shapes, colors, and techniques such as glassblowing, the use of molds, the manipulation of molten glass with tools, and the application of molten glass to complete or decorate an object. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Download or read book Before the Roses and Nightingales written by Donald S. Whitcomb and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Islamic Archaeology written by Marcus Milwright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present, evaluating the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture.
Download or read book Harvard Excavations at Samaria 1908 1910 written by G.A. Reisner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Inception and Conditions of the Work /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Summary Account of the Excavations of 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Description of Objects Found in 1908 /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Organization of the Expedition /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Methods of Excavation /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Identification of the Remains of the Several Periods /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Description of the Deposits of Debris in the Various Working Sections at the summit /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Israelite Period /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Early Post-Israelite Period /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --The Preherodian Town, with the Underlying Fragments of Hellenistic Walls (See Plan 7) /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --The Roman Period (Plans 2-4, 8-12) /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Inscriptions /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Coins at Samaria /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Pottery /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Potter's Marks on Large Jars, Including Rhodian Stamps /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Lamps /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Faience /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Glass /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Stone Vessels and Implements, Whorls, Weights, Raw Materials, and Shells /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Metals /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Objects of Bone and Ivory /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Amulets, Seals, and Beads /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Sculpture, Figurines, and Miscellaneous Objects of Pottery /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --Progress of the Excavations /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Registration Numbers /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Numbers of Discarded Objects /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon --References to Plates /George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon.
Download or read book Muqarnas Volume 25 written by Gülru Necipoglu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.
Download or read book A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered written by Chase F. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first sustained attempt to understand Islamic urbanism and court life from an interdisciplinary approach. Samarra, the last great example of early Islamic city building in Iraq, was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate and the center of court culture during the second half of the ninth century. Although archaeologists and art historians have worked on the site extensively, the bounty of numismatic, literary, and historical evidence has hardly been tapped. Since much of this evidence overlaps, Samarra offers unique insights into the character of city building, administration, military history, court life (ritual, court poetry), and imperial ideology throughout this period.
Download or read book Reclaiming a Plundered Past written by Magnus T. Bernhardsson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003 provoked a world outcry at the loss of artifacts regarded as part of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered or put to political uses. From the beginning of archaeology as a modern science in the nineteenth century, Europeans excavated and appropriated Iraqi antiquities as relics of the birth of Western civilization. Since Iraq was created in 1921, the modern state has used archaeology to forge a connection to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and/or Islamic empires and so build a sense of nationhood among Iraqis of differing religious traditions and ethnicities. This book delves into the ways that archaeology and politics intertwined in Iraq during the British Mandate and the first years of nationhood before World War II. Magnus Bernhardsson begins with the work of British archaeologists who conducted extensive excavations in Iraq and sent their finds to the museums of Europe. He then traces how Iraqis' growing sense of nationhood led them to confront the British over antiquities law and the division of archaeological finds between Iraq and foreign excavators. He shows how Iraq's control over its archaeological patrimony was directly tied to the balance of political power and how it increased as power shifted to the Iraqi government. Finally he examines how Iraqi leaders, including Saddam Hussein, have used archaeology and history to legitimize the state and its political actions.
