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Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting by Lamia Balafrej Pdf
In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed.
The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting by Lamia Balafrej Pdf
Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this text reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness.
Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting by Balafrej Lamia Balafrej Pdf
In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed.
Timurid Art and Culture by Lisa Golombek,Maria Subtelny Pdf
The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai. Among the subjects covered were: 'Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran'; 'The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ‘Abbas I'; 'Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles'; 'Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarkand'; 'The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship'; 'Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels' and 'Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad.
Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture by Saygin Salgirli Pdf
When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of? The first book of its kind to grapple with this question, Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture focuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century-this original book also poses engaging questions about the boundaries of the field.
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s by Jackson Cailah Jackson Pdf
Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rum were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume. Meticulously analysing 15 beautifully decorated Arabic and Persian manuscripts, including Qur'ans, mirrors-for-princes, historical chronicles and Sufi works, Cailah Jackson traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Anatolia. She shows that the central Anatolian city of Konya, in particular, was a dynamic centre of artistic activity and that local Turcoman princes, Seljuk bureaucrats and Mevlevi dervishes all played important roles in manuscript production and patronage.
Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World by Matthew P. Canepa Pdf
A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two millennia, exerting influence at key historical junctures. This book provides the first critical exploration of the role Persian cultures played in articulating the myriad ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the sixth century BCE and the nineteenth century CE. Exploring topics such as royal cosmologies, fashion, banqueting, manuscript cultures, sacred landscapes, and inscriptions, the volume’s essays analyze the intellectual and political exchanges of art, architecture, ritual, and luxury material within and beyond the Persian world. They show how Perso-Iranian cultures offered neighbors and competitors raw material with which to formulate their own imperial aspirations. Unique among studies of Persia and Iran, this volume explores issues of change, renovation, and interconnectivity in these cultures over the longue durée.
Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting by Tawfiq Daʿadli Pdf
The way painters encoded their messages in the Late Herat School of Painting and the different layers of meaning in those paintings form the core of Esoteric Images by Tawfiq Daʿadli.
Seljuqs and their Successors by Canby Sheila Canby Pdf
Rising from nomadic origins as Turkish tribesmen, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs and their successor states dominated vast lands extending from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Supported by colour images, charts, and maps, this volume examines how under Seljuq rule, migrations of people and the exchange and synthesis of diverse traditions-including Turkmen, Perso-Arabo-Islamic, Byzantine, Armenian, Crusader and other Christian cultures-accompanied architectural patronage, advances in science and technology and a great flowering of culture within the realm. It also explores how shifting religious beliefs, ideologies of authority, and lifestyle in Seljuq times influenced cultural and artistic production, urban and rural architecture, monumental inscriptions and royal titulature, and practices of religion and magic. It also presents today's challenges and new approaches to preserving the material heritage of this vastly accomplished and influential civilization.
A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani Pdf
This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maryam Ekhtiar
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maryam Ekhtiar Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art Page : 450 pages File Size : 54,7 Mb Release : 2011 Category : History ISBN : 9781588394347
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Maryam Ekhtiar Pdf
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.
Further Studies in Islamic Painting by Ernst Grube Pdf
Short description: A collection of Professor Grube's essays on the painting of the late 14th and 15th century in the Timurid empire and that of Ottoman Turkey. This is a new revised edition of the 1968 exhibition catalogue The Classical Style of Islamic Painting, which has substantially widened its focus and time span. Long description:The studies by Ernst Grube collected and reprinted in this volume are concerned with two aspects of painting in the Muslim world, that of the late 14th and 15th century in the Timurid empire, and that of Ottoman Turkey. The focal point of this volume is the new edition of the 1968 exhibition-catalogue, The Classical Style in Islamic Painting; this was a study on the origin of Timurid painting and its impact on other royal painting ateliers in the rest of the Muslim world. At that date, the author was of the opinion that the style developed in the atelier of Baysunghur Mirza ibn Shah Rukh, Timur's grandson and one of the great bibliophiles of the age, was considered a "classical" achievement by his contemporaries and the princely bibliophiles of the next two generations. Its apparent perfection led these princes and their artists to emulate its qualities and mannerisms for over two centuries. Written as a catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York in 1968, the selection of works was restrained both by the limits of material then available, and by the fact that relatively little was then known about the bibliophile endeavours of Baysunghur's cousin, Iskandar Sultan ibn 'Umar Shaykh. As we know now, Iskandar matched, and exceeded in many ways, the achievements of Baysunghur, laying the foundation upon which much of what Baysunghur achieved was based. Taking full advantage of the materials from Iskandar's atelier which have now become available in research over the last thirty years, the original text of The Classical Style has been rewritten. No longer restrained by the framework of an exhibition, it has been largely illustrated with new material. While the original concept remains basically unaltered, his new study shifts the focus slightly, taking into account the earlier sources that illuminate the bibliophile achievement of the period. As The Classical Style in Islamic Painting has been out of print for over 25 years, this updated version should be particularly welcome. A second major study included in this volume does focus on Baysunghur, examining two manuscripts of the renowned stories of the two jackals, Kalilah and Dimnah, at the court of the Lion King; they were made for the prince within two years of each other. All the paintings in these exquisite codices are illustrated; a comparison between what would appear to be a pre-Baysunghur version with that made in the prince's own atelier leads to new insights into the problems that still surround the history of painting in that period. A third study tackles the extraordinary set of paintings probably produced in the late 19th century that are based on Baysunghur's famous Shah-namah completed in Herat in 1431. Lastly, the studies dealing with Ottoman Turkish painting range from problems of the identification of the earliest Ottoman style at the end of the 15th century, to the reaction of the Ottoman world to the Kalilah wa Dimnah stories, and the realistic contemporary interpretation of the ancient tradition of Firdausi's Shah-namah.
Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan by Kamoludin Abdullaev Pdf
Tajikistan is the poorest and only Persian-speaking country among the post-Soviet independent states. Historically, the Tajiks of Central Asia and Afghanistan along with the Persians of modern Iran came from a related ethnic group. When the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in late 1924, it became the first modern Tajik state that remained one of the 15 union republics of the Soviet Union until 1991. Almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR, Tajikistan became a scene of brutal civil war, taking place in one of the global hubs of religiously motivated political struggle, militancy, mass cross-border refugee flows, insurgency, and drug trafficking. During the first decade of the 21st century, the country was making modest progress toward stability. However, the heavy burden of socio-economic problems, in addition to continuing conflict in the neighboring Afghanistan-Pakistan, presented even bigger challenges for Tajikistan. In addition, Western economic sanctions against Russia in 2014, coinciding with continuing lower oil prices, have negatively affected one million of Tajik labor migrants in Russia. Yet Tajikistan has become neither weaker nor less important as a player in world politics. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Tajikistan.
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture by Finbarr Barry Flood,Gulru Necipoglu Pdf
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)
