Author: Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300068026
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Simpson explores the production, purpose and meaning of the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones), providing historical documentation about its princely patron and artists, and analysing its contents. She focuses in particular on the iconography of the seven poems.
Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang
Author: Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300068026
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Simpson explores the production, purpose and meaning of the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones), providing historical documentation about its princely patron and artists, and analysing its contents. She focuses in particular on the iconography of the seven poems.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300068026
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Simpson explores the production, purpose and meaning of the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones), providing historical documentation about its princely patron and artists, and analysing its contents. She focuses in particular on the iconography of the seven poems.
Armenia
Author: Helen C. Evans
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396606
Category : Art
Languages : ru
Pages : 360
Book Description
At the foot of Mount Ararat on the crossroads of the eastern and western worlds, medieval Armenians dominated international trading routes that reached from Europe to China and India to Russia. As the first people to convert officially to Christianity, they commissioned and produced some of the most extraordinary religious objects of the Middle Ages. These objects—from sumptuous illuminated manuscripts to handsome carvings, liturgical furnishings, gilded reliquaries, exquisite textiles, and printed books—show the strong persistence of their own cultural identity, as well as the multicultural influences of Armenia’s interactions with Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Muslims, Mongols, Ottomans, and Europeans. This unprecedented volume, written by a team of international scholars and members of the Armenian religious community, contextualizes and celebrates the compelling works of art that define Armenian medieval culture. It features breathtaking photographs of archaeological sites and stunning churches and monasteries that help fill out this unique history. With groundbreaking essays and exquisite illustrations, Armenia illuminates the singular achievements of a great medieval civilization. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396606
Category : Art
Languages : ru
Pages : 360
Book Description
At the foot of Mount Ararat on the crossroads of the eastern and western worlds, medieval Armenians dominated international trading routes that reached from Europe to China and India to Russia. As the first people to convert officially to Christianity, they commissioned and produced some of the most extraordinary religious objects of the Middle Ages. These objects—from sumptuous illuminated manuscripts to handsome carvings, liturgical furnishings, gilded reliquaries, exquisite textiles, and printed books—show the strong persistence of their own cultural identity, as well as the multicultural influences of Armenia’s interactions with Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Muslims, Mongols, Ottomans, and Europeans. This unprecedented volume, written by a team of international scholars and members of the Armenian religious community, contextualizes and celebrates the compelling works of art that define Armenian medieval culture. It features breathtaking photographs of archaeological sites and stunning churches and monasteries that help fill out this unique history. With groundbreaking essays and exquisite illustrations, Armenia illuminates the singular achievements of a great medieval civilization. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}
Post-Amarna Period Statues of Amun and His Consorts Mut and Amunet
Author: Marianne Eaton-Krauss
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004434704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The reign of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten—the so-called Amarna Period—witnessed an unprecedented attack on the cult of Amun, King of the Gods, with his cult center at ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). A program to reinstate Amun to pre-eminence in the traditional pantheon was instituted by Akhenaten’s successors Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemhab. Damaged reliefs and inscriptions were restored and new statues of Amun and his consorts Mut and Amunet commissioned to replace those destroyed under Akhenaten. In this study, over 60 statues and fragments of statues attributable to the post-Amarna Period on the basis of an inscription, physiognomy, and/or stylistic analysis are discussed, as well as others that have been incorrectly assigned to the era.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004434704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The reign of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten—the so-called Amarna Period—witnessed an unprecedented attack on the cult of Amun, King of the Gods, with his cult center at ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). A program to reinstate Amun to pre-eminence in the traditional pantheon was instituted by Akhenaten’s successors Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemhab. Damaged reliefs and inscriptions were restored and new statues of Amun and his consorts Mut and Amunet commissioned to replace those destroyed under Akhenaten. In this study, over 60 statues and fragments of statues attributable to the post-Amarna Period on the basis of an inscription, physiognomy, and/or stylistic analysis are discussed, as well as others that have been incorrectly assigned to the era.
Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: James R. Houghton
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393402
Category : Art museum directors
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393402
Category : Art museum directors
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The Emperors' Album
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting
Author: Daniel Becker
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839437628
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices - creative acts in themselves - rather than as mere rip-offs of an original work of art. The proceedings bring together research from different scholarly fields. They focus on various mimetic practices such as pseudo-translations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different artistic and historic contexts. By opening up the scope of the aesthetic implications of fakes, this anthology aims to consolidate forging as an autonomous method of creation.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839437628
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices - creative acts in themselves - rather than as mere rip-offs of an original work of art. The proceedings bring together research from different scholarly fields. They focus on various mimetic practices such as pseudo-translations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different artistic and historic contexts. By opening up the scope of the aesthetic implications of fakes, this anthology aims to consolidate forging as an autonomous method of creation.
The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
Author: Sheila S. Blair
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
They 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.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
They 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.
India
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Author: Raoul Lefèvre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Birds of America
Author: John James Audubon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).