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Author: Henri Stierlin
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500516423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Moya Carey
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851779338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today the Victoria and Albert Museum holds extensive and renowned collections of Iranian art, spanning at least twelve centuries of Iran's sophisticated cultural history. These objects range from archaeological finds to architectural salvage, from domestic furnishings and drinking vessels to design archives. Most of this diverse material was purchased in the late nineteenth century, over a few decades - roughly between 1873 and 1893 - during a specific period of contact between Victorian Britain and Qajar Iran. This book investigates that period through four case studies, showing how architects, diplomats, dealers, collectors and craftsmen engaged with Iran's complex visual traditions, ancient and modern --
Author: Yuka Kadoi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781474411158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, encompassing West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive 'Persian' aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times.
Author: Arthur Upham Pope
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781258890506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Author: Hamid Keshmirshekan
Publisher: Saqi Books - Saqi Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780863567216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary Iranian art by a noted expert in this field.
Author: Vladimir Lukonin
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 1783107960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for the first time with an unsurpassed selection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Lukonin, Director of the Oriental Art section of the Hermitage Museum, and his colleague Anatoli Ivanov have broadly documented the major developments of Persian Art: from the first signs of civilisation on the plains of Iran around the 10thcentury BCE through the early 20th century. In the second part of the book they have catalogued Persian Art giving locations, origins, descriptions, and artist biographies where available. Persian Art demonstrates a common theme which runs through the art of the region over the past three millennia. Despite many religious and political upheavals, Persian Art whether in its architecture, sculpture, frescoes, miniatures, porcelain, fabrics, or rugs; whether in the work of the humble craftsmen or the high art of court painters displays the delicate touch and subtle refinement which has had a profound influence on art throughout the world.
Author: Vice-President Eleanor G Sims
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0300090382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first survey of the figural arts of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century ever to consider themes, rather than styles. Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depicted on them through the ages are remarkably consistent. Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these categories, noting not only how they illustrate archetypal themes but also what it is about them that is unique. She also discusses the ways that Iranian art both influenced and was influenced by invaders and neighboring lands. Boris I. Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst J. Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informative bibliography.
Author: Abolala Soudavar
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Overview of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting, manuscript illumination, calligraphy and drawing, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
Author: Adelʹ Tigranovna Adamova
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500970683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A stunning catalog of Persian miniature paintings and manuscripts from The al-Sabah Collection, placed in their historical and artistic context
