Book Arts Of Isfahan

Author : Alice Taylor,John Walsh
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363384

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Book Arts of Isfahan by Alice Taylor,John Walsh Pdf

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.

Author : Alice Taylor
Publisher : J Paul Getty Museum Publications
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : 0892363622

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Book Arts of Isfahan by Alice Taylor Pdf

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the J.Paul Getty Museum, this book explores the vibrant artistic legacy of the capital city of the Safavid Empire in seventeenth-century Persia. Isfahan was a crossroads of international trade and diplomacy and, consequently, became a kaleidoscope of resident languages and religions. The artists of the city were remarkably responsive to the physical and psychological diversity of its many peoples: Armenians, Uzbeks, Turks, Christians, and Jews. So distinctive was their approach that art historians now acknowledge an Isfahan style. Book Arts of Isfahan brings together dozens of miniatures, most of them drawn from the collections of the Getty Museum, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With Alice Taylor's concise and readable text, they provide an excellent overview of the books and manuscripts produced in the Isfahan style.

Author : Sussan Babaie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780748633760

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Isfahan and its Palaces by Sussan Babaie Pdf

Winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award 2009This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501-1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91 at the millennial threshold of the Islamic calendar (1000 A.H.), transformed Isfahan from a provincial, medieval, and largely Sunni city into an urban-centered representation of the first Imami Shi'i empire in the history of Islam. The historical process of Shi'ification of Safavid Iran and the deployment of the arts in situating the shifts in the politico-religious agenda of the imperial household informs Sussan Babaie's study of palatial architecture and urban environments of Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin.Babaie argues that since the Safavid claim presumed the inheritance both of the charisma of the Shi'i Imams and of the aura of royal splendor integral to ancient Persian notions of kingship, a ceremonial regime was gradually devised in which access and proximity to the shah assumed the contours of an institutionalized form of feasting. Talar-palaces, a new typology in Islamic palatial designs, and the urban-spatial articulation of access and proximity are the architectural anchors of this argument. Cast in the comparative light of urban spaces and palace complexes elsewhere and earlier-in the Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms as well as in the early modern European capitals-Safavid Isfahan emerges as the epitome of a new architectural-urban paradigm in the early modern age.

Author : Anthony Welch
Publisher : New York Graphic Society Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015249751

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Shah ʹAbbas & the Arts of Isfahan by Anthony Welch Pdf

Author : Keelan Overton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253048943

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Iran and the Deccan by Keelan Overton Pdf

In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.

Author : Henri Stierlin,Anne Stierlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500511004

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Islamic Art and Architecture by Henri Stierlin,Anne Stierlin Pdf

More than five hundred full-color illustrations and reproductions capture a panoramic array of Islamic art and architecture in a study that examines the sources, forms, themes, and symbolism of Islamic artistry, as exemplified in mosques, palaces, landscape architecture, caligraphy, miniature painting, tapestries and textiles, and other artforms.

Author : Wilfrid Blunt,Wim Swaan
Publisher : London : Elek Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Architecture
ISBN : LCCN:gb66020894

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Isfahan, Pearl of Persia by Wilfrid Blunt,Wim Swaan Pdf

Author : Elaheh Kheirandish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755635108

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Baghdad and Isfahan by Elaheh Kheirandish Pdf

"Renowned as great centres of learning, the cities of Baghdad and Isfahan were at the heart of the Islamic 'age of science'. Their distinct cultural voices inspired a unique historical dialogue, which finds new expression in Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science, the story of how knowledge was transmitted and transformed within Islamic lands, and then spread across the globe. Charting the history of Baghdad and Isfahan from 750 to 1750, Elaheh Kheirandish draws on the voices of court astronomers, mathematicians, scientists, mystics, jurists, statesmen and Arabic and Persian translators and scholars. Telling the story of the rise of Baghdad and the decline of Isfahan, as capital cities and as centres of intellectual thought, this unique book addresses Islamic culture's extensive and lasting contribution to the history of science. Kheirandish bases her narrative on a unique medieval manuscript and other historical sources and the result is more than a thousand-year "tale of two cities"-it is a city by city, and century by century, look at what it took to change the world. In a feat of travelogue and time travel, Kheirandish creates parallel stories with modern and historical characters, crossing cities worldwide, and capturing changes through time."

Author : Stephen P. Blake
Publisher : Mazda Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048842853

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Half the World by Stephen P. Blake Pdf

Pt. 1. Background. 1. Land, People, Empire. 2. Imperial Capital: When, Where, Why? 3. Cityscape -- Pt. 2. Politics. 4. Imperial Palace and Imperial Garden Retreats. 5. Great Amiri Mansions and Garden Retreats -- Pt. 3. Economy. 6. Bazaar. 7. Caravanserai -- Pt. 4. Religion. 8. Mosque. 9. Madrasa and Imamzada -- Themes and Findings -- App. Mahallas and Suburbs of Isfahan.

Author : Sheila R. Canby
Publisher : Art Media Resources
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110906398

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Safavid Art and Architecture by Sheila R. Canby Pdf

The era of Safavid rule was a time of religious and political development in Iran, when the arts attained new heights of brilliance and architecture flourished. This volume deals with Safavid painting and the conservation of works from this period.

Author : Parīsā Damandān Nafīsī
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Photography
ISBN : UCSC:32106017606259

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Portrait Photographs from Isfahan by Parīsā Damandān Nafīsī Pdf

Following the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, photographs of women uncovered were forbidden, resulting in the burning down of many photographers' studios. This work is a collection of pioneering photographs from the early twentieth century, which offers a window on the changing face of Iranian society during that period.

Author : Ronald W. Ferrier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300039870

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The Arts of Persia by Ronald W. Ferrier Pdf

Shows and describes examples of Persian calligraphy, glass, tile, pottery, lacquer, books, paintings, jewelry, textiles, sculpture, and architecture

Author : Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1697 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195309911

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Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set by Jonathan Bloom,Sheila Blair Pdf

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.

Author : Wilfrid Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:251796409

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Isfahan: Pearl of Persia by Wilfrid Blunt Pdf

Author : Kathryn Babayan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503627833

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The City as Anthology by Kathryn Babayan Pdf

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents—from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who anthologized their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan. Through them, we see the gestures, manners, and sensibilities of a shared culture that configured their relations and negotiated the lines between friendship and eroticism. These entangled acts of seeing and reading, desiring and writing converge to fashion the refined urban self through the sensual and the sexual—and give us a new and enticing view of the city of Isfahan.