Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Grace Dunham Guest
Publisher:
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
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Muqarnas
Author: Gulru Necipogulu
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789004116696
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Author: Vice-President Eleanor G Sims
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0300090382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first survey of the figural arts of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century ever to consider themes, rather than styles. Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depicted on them through the ages are remarkably consistent. Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these categories, noting not only how they illustrate archetypal themes but also what it is about them that is unique. She also discusses the ways that Iranian art both influenced and was influenced by invaders and neighboring lands. Boris I. Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst J. Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informative bibliography.
Fifteenth-Century Persian Painting
Author: B. W. Robinson
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1993-03
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780814774465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, B.W. Robinson traces the development of the different styles of Persian painting during the fifteenth century, and considers a number of the problems and issues involved in establishing a methodology and system of classification for Persian painting of that period. Robinson begins, by way of background, with a review of the schools of Herat and Shiraz up to the middle of the century, and then proceeds to tackle in order the three main fields of controversy: painting under the Turkmans, Timurid paintings in Transoxiana and Timurid painting in India. The uneasy fusion of contrasting characteristics of Herat and Shiraz that resulted in the emergence of Turkman court painting is traced through the origins, development, and branching of the Turkman style into a definitive form. Then the author reviews a branch of the art almost entirely neglected up to now, which he identifies as originating in Transoxiana. Finally he provides a new approach to the study of pre-Mughal Indian painting in Persian style by dividing the material into five stylistic groups.
The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
Author: Sheila S. Blair
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-09-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780300064650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles.
The Timurid Century
Author: Charles Melville
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-05-14
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1838606157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe century after the conquests of Timur witnessed the division of eastern and western Iran between his Turko-Mongol successors, and a flowering of Persian culture in the great cities of Herat, Samarqand and Tabriz, among others. In this, the ninth volume in The Idea of Iran series, leading scholars analyse the ways that Timurid contemporaries viewed their traditions and their environment, asking questions such as: what was the view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship define the distinctive aspects of the period? Essential reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in the history of Iran, the book considers the political, religious and cultural history of this rich and highly productive interval that was the springboard for the formation of new imperial Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Ozbek orders of succeeding centuries.
Shahnama
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1351548921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama, written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is one of the longest poems ever composed and recounts the history of Iran from the dawn of time to the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. There is no Persian text, in prose or poetry, which has been so frequently and lavishly illustrated. Offering fresh insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally changing messages - often political in nature - which the familiar stories were made to convey over the centuries.
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art (English Edition)
Author: Leslee Michelsen
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9992195983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFerozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art represents a partnership between the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the students and teachers of the Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture in Kabul. The unifying theme of the exhibition is the preservation of the traditional arts of the Islamic world - in both themes and materials - in the modern world, and the role of education in its transmission and translation. Half of the objects featured in the exhibition are historical objectsmasterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art's collection, from four great dynasties with connections to Afghanistan: the Ghaznavids, Timurids, Mughals and Safavids.The other half of the exhibition presents works created specifically for the exhibition by Turquoise Mountain students in response to, and in conversation with, the historical objects. Featuring exquisite photography and unique research, this catalogue is a visually stunning representation of the exhibition and a valuable record of an extraordinary endeavour.
Studies in Persian Art
Author: Basil William Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth century onwards. Vol II Contents: Preface 'Zenith of his Time': the Painter Pir Ahmad Baghshimali Bihzad and his School: the Materials Siyah Qalam Painter-llluminators of 16th Century Shiraz Muhammadi and the Khurasan Style Ali Asghar, Court Painter The Earliest Illustrated Manuscript of Nizami? Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute, I. Two Mathnawis Two Illustrated Manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran. I. Anthology A Persian Battle-Piece Prince Baysunghur and the Fables of Bidpai Prince Baysunghur's Nizami: A Speculation Unpublished Paintings from a 15th-Century Book of Kings The Shahnama of Muhammad Juki, RAS MS 239 The Dunimarle Shahnama: A Timurid Manuscript from Mazandaran The Tehran Manuscript of Kalila wa Dimna: A Reconsideration The Durham Gulistan: an Unpublished Timurid Manuscript RAS MS 178: an unrecorded Persian Painter The John Rylands Layla wa Majnoun and the Bodleian Nawa'i of 1485: a Royal Timurid Manuscript 'A Magnificent MS': the British Library Shahnama of 1486 Origin and Date of Three Famous Shah Nameh Illustrations Rustam in Battle: A Persian Masterpiece An Unpublished Manuscript of the Gulistan of Sa'di Isma'il II's Copy of the Shahnama Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. I. Holmes 150 Two Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Marquess of Bute. II. Anwar i Suhayli of 1593 A Lost Persian Miniature Two Manuscripts of the Shahnama in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. II. Holmes 151 The Shahnameh Manuscript Cochran 4 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Index.
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Author: Susan Sinclair
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 1510
ISBN-13: 9004170588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
