Download or read book Treasures of Persian Art After Islam the Mahboubian Collection written by University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the great diversity and range of Islamic culture through one of the finest collections in the world. Published to coincide with the historic reopening of the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum's Islamic Art Department, it presents nearly three hundred masterworks created in the rich tradition of the Islamic faith and culture. The Metropolitan's renowned holdings range chronologically from the origins of Islam in the 7th century through the 19th century, and geographically from as far west as Spain to as far east as Southeast Asia.

Download or read book Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the decorative arts or even the minor arts. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.

Download or read book The Arts of Persia written by Ronald W. Ferrier and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes examples of Persian calligraphy, glass, tile, pottery, lacquer, books, paintings, jewelry, textiles, sculpture, and architecture

Download or read book Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art Architecture Three Volume Set written by Jonathan Bloom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.

Download or read book Persian Art written by Vladimir Lukonin and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for the first time with an unsurpassed selection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Lukonin, Director of the Oriental Art section of the Hermitage Museum, and his colleague Anatoli Ivanov have broadly documented the major developments of Persian Art: from the first signs of civilisation on the plains of Iran around the 10th century BCE through the early 20th century. In the second part of the book they have catalogued Persian Art giving locations, origins, descriptions, and artist biographies where available. Persian Art demonstrates a common theme which runs through the art of the region over the past three millennia. Despite many religious and political upheavals, Persian Art ?? whether in its architecture, sculpture, frescoes, miniatures, porcelain, fabrics, or rugs; whether in the work of the humble craftsmen or the high art of court painters ?? displays the delicate touch and subtle refinement which has had a profound influence on art throughout the world.

Download or read book Lost Treasures of Persia written by Vladimir Grigorʹevich Lukonin and published by Mage Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A World of Beasts A Thirteenth Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals the Kit b Na t Al ayaw n in the Ibn Bakht sh Tradition written by Anna Contadini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Kit?b Na‘t al-?ayaw?n (Book on the Characteristics of Animals), this book considers together text and image in this unique thirteenth-century manuscript, thereby contributing to the wider scholarship on Middle Eastern painting and art of the pre-modern period.

Download or read book Shahnama Studies I written by Charles Melville and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the series Studies in Persian Cultural History is the edited volume based on the papers from the Second Shahnama round-table, held in 2003 in Cambridge and published by Charles Melville in 2006 (The Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge). This volume brings together a collection of papers exploring many different aspects of the Shahnama, both as literature and as the object of royal patronage. It focuses particularly on the manuscripts in which the poem has been preserved from the thirteenth century onwards, and the relationships between Firdausi's text and the rich variety of the miniature paintings created to illustrate it.

Download or read book Essays in Honor of J M Rogers written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Muqarnas written by Gulru Necipogulu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Islamic Art written by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library The Fogg Art Museum written by Harvard University. Fine Arts Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliographica Textilia Historiae written by Seth Siegelaub and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 5,000 works published since the fifteenth century on textiles as art, craft, technology, industry & commerce. Including archaeological, ethnographic, religious (Islamic, Christian, Buddhist), secular, decorative, folk, textiles - Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, Africa - prehistoric, ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo - woven silk, wool, linen, cotton, velvet, printed textiles, embroidery, lace, carpets, dyeing, tapestry, costume, and related subjects. Most with collations; many with descriptions; some with illustrations ...

Download or read book Ceramics of Iran written by Oliver Watson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated showcase of the rich and varied ceramic tradition of Iran Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, this volume brings together over 1,000 years of Persian Islamic pottery. With more than 500 illustrations, authoritative technical treatises, and insightful commentary, Ceramics of Iran assembles a collection of rarely seen treasures from the Persian world and presents a collective history of its renowned ceramic tradition. Included among its comprehensive catalogue entries are numerous translations of the object’s inscriptions, providing readers with a richer and more detailed understanding of the cultural heritage from which these items are derived. In addition, the book contains new research and material from previously unknown sites. Featuring all new photography of nearly 250 objects, Ceramics of Iran brings the extraordinary contributions of Persian art into a wider historical context, along with a wealth of images to demonstrate the full scope of its intricate beauty.

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.