The Art And Architecture Of Persia

Author : Giovanni Curatola,Gianroberto Scarcia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015073873948

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The Art and Architecture of Persia by Giovanni Curatola,Gianroberto Scarcia Pdf

The history of the area now known as Iran, but often still referred to as Persia, spans millennia, boasting a rich and complex artistic and cultural legacy. Populated since prehistoric times--thus making it one of the most animated and lively areas of Islamic civilization--this region was home to the first powerful empire (lead by Cyrus the Great during the Achaemenid dynasty) and influenced the aesthetic grammar of a large portion of central Asia, including Armenia, Georgia, and India. Beginning with ancient Iranian civilizations in 500 BC, through the Islamic period, and on to modern-day Iran, The Art and Architecture of Persia explores the common characteristics and thematic threads running through Persian art. The book presents its readers with archaeological landscapes, monuments, sculptures, carpets, and dazzling ornaments and art objects from this stunning artistic milieu. The text takes as its subject the most fascinating and unusual facets of the Persian artistic experience in all its phases, with a particular focus on post-Hellenic culture, namely late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Art and Architecture of Persia investigates how the examined regions were incubators of specific artistic developments and identifies how the Iranian passage along the Silk Route acted as a bridge between distant lands for trade and also facilitated the dissemination of religious and material culture. The two authors, Giovanni Curatola and Gianroberto Scarcia, write in an engaging, refreshingly accessible manner, catering to both the specialist and the novice wishing to immerse themselves in this captivating region and its art. Author Scarcia helms the first part of the book, covering the erafrom the Achaemenids to the Sassanids, examining the great architecture from Persepolis onward, while also addressing the powerful metalwork produced by these cultures. The second part, by Curatola, explores the Islamic period, when architectural decoration moved into the forefront with brilliant chromatic effects etched onto massive built works. The same colors bloom throughout the other arts, including carpets and miniature paintings. Dynamic and absorbing, the text and its more than 200 color photos will take readers on a virtual tour of this region and the art it has produced over the millennia.

Author : Henri Stierlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500516421

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Persian Art & Architecture by Henri Stierlin Pdf

From monumental architecture to miniature paintings, sumptuous carpets, and ceramics: the decorative profusion of the arts of Persia captured in glorious detail through hundreds of color photographs

Author : Bernard O'Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037467142

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Studies in Persian Art and Architecture by Bernard O'Kane Pdf

Contains all the major articles on Persian art and architecture published by O'Kane between 1976 and 1994

Author : Ronald W. Ferrier
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Finbarr Barry Flood,Gulru Necipoglu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119068570

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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)

Author : Nasir Raza Khan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000477573

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Art and Architectural Traditions of India and Iran by Nasir Raza Khan Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural linkages between India and Iran in terms of art and architectural traditions and their commonality and diversity. It addresses themes such as early connections between Iran, India and Central Asia; study of the Qutb Complex in Delhi; the great immigration of Turks from Asia to Anatolia; the collaboration of Indian and Persian painters; design, ornamentation techniques and regional dynamics; women and public spaces in Shahjahanabad and Isfahan; the noble-architects of emperor Shah Jahan's reign; development of Kashmir’s Islamic religious architecture in the medieval period; role of Nur Jahan and her Persian roots in the evolution of the Mughal Garden; synthesis of Indo-Iranian architecture; and confluence of Indo-Persian food culture to showcase the richness of art, architecture, and sociocultural and political exchanges between the two countries. Bringing together a wide array of perspectives, it delves into the roots of connection between India and Iran over centuries to understand its influence and impact on the artistic and cultural genealogy and the shared past of two of the oldest civilizations and regional powers of the world. With its archival sources, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of medieval history, Indian history, international relations, Central Asian history, Islamic studies, Iranian history, art and architecture, heritage studies, cultural studies, regional studies, and South Asian studies as well as those interested in the study of sociocultural and religious exchanges.

Author : Talinn Grigor
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271089706

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The Persian Revival by Talinn Grigor Pdf

One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western—and especially Gothic—architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power and identity in British India and in Qajar-Pahlavi Iran. The Persian Revival examines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in literature and then in art history. Tracing Western visual discourse about ancient Iran from 1699 on, Grigor parses the invention and use of a revivalist architectural style from the Afsharid and Zand successors to the Safavid throne and the rise of the Parsi industrialists as cosmopolitan subjects of British India. Drawing on a wide range of Persian revival narratives bound to architectural history, Grigor foregrounds the complexities and magnitude of artistic appropriations of Western art history in order to grapple with colonial ambivalence and imperial aspirations. She argues that while Western imperialism was instrumental in shaping high art as mercantile-bourgeois ethos, it was also a project that destabilized the hegemony of a Eurocentric historiography of taste. An important reconsideration of the Persian Revival, this book will be of vital interest to art and architectural historians and intellectual historians, particularly those working in the areas of international modernism, Iranian studies, and historiography.

Author : Georges Perrot,Charles Chipiez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NWU:35556020547006

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History of Art in Persia by Georges Perrot,Charles Chipiez Pdf

Author : Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317427223

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The Historiography of Persian Architecture by Mohammad Gharipour Pdf

Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual historians. Exploring the historiography of Persian art and architecture requires a closer look at a diverse range of sources, including chronicles, historical accounts, travelogues, and material evidence coming from archaeological excavations. The Historiography of Persian Architecture highlights the political, cultural, and intellectual contexts that lie behind the written history of Persian architecture in the twentieth century, presenting a series of investigations on issues related to historiography. This book addresses the challenges, complexities, and contradictions regarding historical and geographical diversity of Persian architecture, including issues lacking in the 20th century historiography of Iran and neighbouring countries. This book not only illustrates different trends in Persian architecture but also clarifies changing notions of research in this field. Aiming to introduce new tools of analysis, the book offers fresh insights into the discipline, supported by historical documents, archaeological data, treatises, and visual materials. It brings together well-established and emerging scholars from a broad range of academic spheres, in order to question and challenge pre-existing historiographical frameworks, particularly through specific case studies. Overall, it provides a valuable contribution to the study of Persian architecture, simultaneously revisiting past literature and advancing new approaches. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East and Iranian Studies, as well as Architectural History, including Islamic architecture and historiography.

Author : Alice Taylor,John Walsh
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Ḥabīb Allāh Āyat Allāhī,Habibollah Ayatollahi
Publisher : Alhoda UK
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9649449140

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The Book of Iran by Ḥabīb Allāh Āyat Allāhī,Habibollah Ayatollahi Pdf

Author : Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,Robert Hillenbrand,J. M. Rogers
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040168224

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The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis,Robert Hillenbrand,J. M. Rogers Pdf

The art of the Parthian and Sasanian empires exercised enormous influence on art and culture in the early Islamic period and its legacy has continuing relevance in modern times. Pre-Islamic stylistic developments and motifs were widely adopted in the Islamic period: traditional mosque architecture, for example, draws much from Parthian and Sasanian forms.

Author : Yuka Kadoi,Iván Szántó
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443864497

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The Shaping of Persian Art by Yuka Kadoi,Iván Szántó Pdf

While the impact of the Persian style is undeniably reflected in most aspects of the art and architecture of Islamic Central Asia, this Perso-Central Asian connection was chiefly formed and articulated by the Euro-American movement of collecting and interpreting the art and material culture of the Persian Islamic world in modern times. This had an enormous impact on the formation of scholarship and connoisseurship in Persian art, for instance, with an attempt to define the characteristics of how the Islamic art of Iran and Central Asia should be viewed and displayed at museums, and how these subjects should be researched in academia. This important historical fact, which has attracted scholarly interest only in recent years, should be treated as a serious subject of research, accepting that the abstract image of Persian art was not a pure creation of Persian civilization, but that it can be the manifestation of particular historical times and charismatic individuals. Attention should therefore be given to various factors that resulted in the shaping of “Persian” imagery across the globe, not only in terms of national ideologies, but also within the context of several protagonists, such as scholars, collectors and dealers, as well as of the objects themselves. This volume brings together Islamic Iranian and Central Asian art experts from diverse disciplinary and professional backgrounds, and intends to offer a novel insight into what is collectively known as Persian art.

Author : John Boardman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 050005102X

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Persia and the West by John Boardman Pdf

The first kings of the Achaemenid Persian empire, Cyrus the Great and Darius,sought to devise for their capital cities new styles in monumental architecture and sculpture to express their imperial status and mastery of the known world. With no local tradition to guide designers, a homogeneous style was created from the example of the many new subjects - Ionian Greeks, Lydians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians. This book traces these sources and explores the way that traditional Achaemenid motifs, if not styles, also permeated the empire. The Achaemenid Persian experiment was unique in antiquity, and it was successful for as long as the empire lasted. Even after Alexander the Great brought about its downfall, it continued to influence the arts from Greece to India. This is a record of the brilliant flowering of an artificial yet unified construct, unmatched in the art of the Old World.

Author : Bernard O'Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Islamic
ISBN : UCSD:31822036225290

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The Appearance of Persian on Islamic Art by Bernard O'Kane Pdf