ISBN |
9004116699 (hbk.) |
Title |
Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world : volume 17 / guest editor : David J. Roxburgh |
Publisher |
Leiden : Brill, 2000 |
Physical desc. |
202 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 28 cm. |
Series |
Muqarnas 17 |
Note |
"The essays in this volume are revised versions of papers first presented at the conference, The making and reception of painting in the pre-modern Islamic world, held in May 1999 under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University" -- intro. |
Includes two additional papers that were not part of the conference |
CBL illustrations: p. 194 (In 44.7) |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references |
Contents |
Introduction: The study of painting and the arts of the book / David J. Roxburgh. -- Materials and methods: The introduction of paper to the Islamic lands and the development of the illuminated manuscript / Jonathan M. Bloom. -- Color and gold: the decorated papers used in manuscripts in later Islamic times / Sheila S. Blair. -- The conception and realization of painting: The beginnings of the illustrated Arabic book: an intersection between art and scholarship / Eva R. Hoffman. -- The age of Muhammadi / Abolala Soudavar. -- Selling to the court: late-sixteenth-century manuscript production in Shiraz / Lâle Uluç. -- Theories and aesthetics of painting: The theory and practice of portraiture in the Persian tradition / Priscilla P. Soucek. -- From the "Theory of the two Qalams" to the "Seven principles of painting": theory, terminology, and practice in Persian classical painting / Yves Porter. -- Kamal al-Din Bihzad and authorship in Persianate painting / David J. Roxburgh. -- Later responses to paintings and books: Additions to illustrated manuscripts in Ottoman workshops / Zeren Tanindi. -- From translated word to translated image: the illustrated Sehnâme-i Türkî copies / Serpil Bağci. -- A Mughal code of connoisseurship / John Seyller. |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 44 |
Art, Islamic -- Congresses |
Art, Mogul -- Congresses |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic -- Congresses |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul -- Congresses |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Congresses |
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Congresses |
Added name(s) |
Roxburgh, David J. ed. |
Necipoğlu, Gülru ed. |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture |