| ISBN |
030017585X (hbk.) |
| 9780300175851 (hbk.) |
| Corporate Author |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
| Title |
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / edited by Maryam D. Ekhtiar ... [et al.] |
| Publisher |
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011 |
| Physical desc. |
xiii, [2], 431 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. map, plans ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the reopening of the Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia on November 1, 2011. |
| Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-425) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: building a collection of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum, 1870-2011 / Priscilla P. Soucek -- A century of installations: a photo essay / Rebecca Meriwether Lindsey -- The new Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia / Navina Najat Haidar -- Art of the early caliphates (7th to 10th centuries) / Maryam D. Ekhtiar -- Cats. 1-29 -- Art of Spain, North Africa, and the western Mediterranean / Olga Bush -- Cats. 30-51 -- Art of the eastern Islamic lands (9th to 14th centuries) / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Cats. 52-89 -- Art of Egypt and Syria (10th to 16th centuries) / Stefano Carboni -- Cats. 90-116 -- Art of Iran and Central Asia (15th to 19th centuries) / Sheila R. Canby -- Cats. 117-199 -- Art of the Ottoman court / Walter B. Denny -- Cats. 200-238 -- Art of South Asia (14th to 19th centuries) / Navina Najat Haidar. |
| Corporate name |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Dept. of Islamic Art |
| Subject |
Islamic art -- Catalogs |
| Islamic art -- New York (State) New York -- Catalogs |
| Added name(s) |
Ekhtiar, Maryam |
| Soucek, Priscilla Parsons |
| Canby, Sheila R. |
| Haidar, Navina Najat |
