Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Billedværk med illustrationer til værker af Firdawsi, Mir 'Ali Shir Nawa'i, Hafiz, Nizami og Jami.
Royal Persian Manuscripts
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Billedværk med illustrationer til værker af Firdawsi, Mir 'Ali Shir Nawa'i, Hafiz, Nizami og Jami.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Billedværk med illustrationer til værker af Firdawsi, Mir 'Ali Shir Nawa'i, Hafiz, Nizami og Jami.
Royal Persian Manuscripts
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Royal Persian Paintings
Author: Basil William Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time comprehensively examines the flowering of Persian painting and the visual arts of this period. It focuses on the growth of a remarkable tradition of life-size figural painting, virtually unseen in the Islamic world. Exquisite historic manuscripts, lacquer works, calligraphies and enamels further illuminate the subject. The Qajar Epoch carries essays by leading scholars exploring the historical and social context of the period. Detailed entries describing and interpreting a wide variety of painting and artifacts, many hitherto unseen masterpieces from museums such as the Hermitage and private collections are virtually all illustrated in color and accompanied by translations of inscriptions, technical appendices and extensive bibliographies. A unique reference work, The Qajar Epoch will appeal to both specialist of pre-modern Iran and all those interested in non-Western artistic and cultural traditions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time comprehensively examines the flowering of Persian painting and the visual arts of this period. It focuses on the growth of a remarkable tradition of life-size figural painting, virtually unseen in the Islamic world. Exquisite historic manuscripts, lacquer works, calligraphies and enamels further illuminate the subject. The Qajar Epoch carries essays by leading scholars exploring the historical and social context of the period. Detailed entries describing and interpreting a wide variety of painting and artifacts, many hitherto unseen masterpieces from museums such as the Hermitage and private collections are virtually all illustrated in color and accompanied by translations of inscriptions, technical appendices and extensive bibliographies. A unique reference work, The Qajar Epoch will appeal to both specialist of pre-modern Iran and all those interested in non-Western artistic and cultural traditions.
Persian Painting
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN: 9780807608135
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN: 9780807608135
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Art of the Islamic World
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Treasures of Herat
Author: BARBARA. BREND
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909942547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature. With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. These two copies of the Khamsah (Quintet) a set of five narrative poems by Nizami Ganjavi, a master of allegorical poetry in Persian literature, were produced in Herat in the fifteenth century, one of the greatest periods of Persian painting. Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. Brent tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyzes the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context. The images from both highly prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in color, and the collected history of one of the manuscripts--recorded in the form of seal impressions and inscriptions-- is also included. Ursula Sims-Williams provides a translation and commentary of these important marks of ownership which identify the Mughal rulers Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb, among many others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909942547
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
An illustrated reference book for students and scholars of Persian art, poetry, and literature. With this book, Barbara Brend provides thorough consideration of two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library. These two copies of the Khamsah (Quintet) a set of five narrative poems by Nizami Ganjavi, a master of allegorical poetry in Persian literature, were produced in Herat in the fifteenth century, one of the greatest periods of Persian painting. Although well known, the manuscripts have never before been written about in relation to each other. Brent tells the story of each poem and the painting that illustrates it, and she formally analyzes the images, placing them in their historical and artistic context. The images from both highly prized manuscripts are beautifully reproduced in color, and the collected history of one of the manuscripts--recorded in the form of seal impressions and inscriptions-- is also included. Ursula Sims-Williams provides a translation and commentary of these important marks of ownership which identify the Mughal rulers Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzeb, among many others.
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Author: Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme.
Book Arts of Isfahan
Author: Alice Taylor
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236338X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 089236338X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, the Persian city of Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy. Manuscript paintings produced within the city’s various cultural, religious, and ethnic groups reveal the vibrant artistic legacy of the Safavid Empire. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum, Book Arts of Isfahan offers a fascinating account of the ways in which the artists of Isfahan used their art to record the life around them and at the same time define their own identities within a complex society.
Peerless Images
Author: Vice-President Eleanor G Sims
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300090382
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300090382
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This 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.
The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Author: Sheila Canby
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300194544
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300194544
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.