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Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of the development of this pivotal branch of Islamic art, which absorbed the influence of Arab and Chinese painting, and influenced in turn the miniature painting of Mughal India.
This first volume concentrates on Persian painting. Seven papers examine the general evolution of painting in Persia from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, "mostly preserved in manuscript illumination, with emphasis on that most characteristic of Persian manuscripts, "the Shah-Nameh, the national epic. Particular attention is paid to the Timurid period and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Four reviews of exhibitions of Persian art follow. Thirteen studies are devoted to a later period, the school of painting that arose under the Qajar rulers, when Persian art flourished in such new and diverse media as oil painting and painted enamels.
This first volume concentrates on Persian painting. Seven papers examine the general evolution of painting in Persia from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, "mostly preserved in manuscript illumination, with emphasis on that most characteristic of Persian manuscripts, "the Shah-Nameh, the national epic. Particular attention is paid to the Timurid period and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Four reviews of exhibitions of Persian art follow. Thirteen studies are devoted to a later period, the school of painting that arose under the Qajar rulers, when Persian art flourished in such new and diverse media as oil painting and painted enamels.
Price: £60.00
Pages: 364
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date:
31 December 1993
ISBN: 9780907132431
Format: Hardcover
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Preface
A Survey of Persian Painting 1350-1896
Persian Painting and the National Epic
Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts
Persian Miniatures of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Shah Abbas and the Mughal Ambassador Khan Alam: the Pictorial Record
Areas of Controversy in Islamic Painting
Book Illustration in Transoxiana: the Timurid Period
Some Modern Persian Miniatures
Persian Miniatures at the British Museum
Persian Painting: A Loan Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles
Qajar Art: An Introduction
The Court Painters of Fath Ali Shah
The Amery Collection of Persian Oil Paintings
Persian Royal Portraiture and the Qajars
Some Thoughts on Qajar Lacquer
Qajar Lacquer
Persian Lacquer in the Bern Historical Museum
Persian Lacquer and the Bern Historical Museum Casket
A Pair of Royal Book-Covers
A Lacquer Mirror Case of 1854
Qajar Painted Enamels
A Royal Qajar Enamel
The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and other Qajar Illustrated
Books
Index
A Survey of Persian Painting 1350-1896
Persian Painting and the National Epic
Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts
Persian Miniatures of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Shah Abbas and the Mughal Ambassador Khan Alam: the Pictorial Record
Areas of Controversy in Islamic Painting
Book Illustration in Transoxiana: the Timurid Period
Some Modern Persian Miniatures
Persian Miniatures at the British Museum
Persian Painting: A Loan Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles
Qajar Art: An Introduction
The Court Painters of Fath Ali Shah
The Amery Collection of Persian Oil Paintings
Persian Royal Portraiture and the Qajars
Some Thoughts on Qajar Lacquer
Qajar Lacquer
Persian Lacquer in the Bern Historical Museum
Persian Lacquer and the Bern Historical Museum Casket
A Pair of Royal Book-Covers
A Lacquer Mirror Case of 1854
Qajar Painted Enamels
A Royal Qajar Enamel
The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and other Qajar Illustrated
Books
Index