ISBN |
9783943964035 (pbk.) |
Title |
Heroic times : a thousand years of the Persian Book of kings / edited by Julia Gonnella and Christoph Rauch |
Publisher |
Munich : Edition Minerva, 2012 |
Physical desc. |
183 p. ; col. ill. ; 30 cm. |
Series |
Sammlungen des Museums für Islamische Kunst Berlin |
Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Heroicsche zeiten: tausend jahre persisches Buch der könige, at the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 19 March-3 July 2011. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183). |
Contents |
Heroic times: a millenium of the Persian Book of kings / Julia Gonnella -- Firdausi and the Shahnama / Jürgen Ehlers -- The pre-Islamic roots of Firdausi's Shahnama / Maria Macuch -- Images of Firdausi's Shahnama in the Diez albums in the Berlin State Library / Eleanor Sims -- Sumptuous hues of gold and colors to serve the Iranian narrative of kings and heroes: yet another Safavid Shahnama in Berlin / Claus-Peter Haase -- Kings, heroes, and the divine: the 1605 Shahnama in the Berlin State Library / Kishwar Rizvi -- Jamshid invents the crafts / Sheila Blair -- The Shahnama: on the forging of heroes and weapons / Filiz Çakır Phillip -- The Shahnama in print: lithographed editions of the Persian national epic / Ulrich Marzolph -- The response to the Shahnama in the German-speaking world / Mojtaba Kolivand -- Catalog. The fascination of the Sasanian Empire (1-12) -- Shahnama illustrations in manuscripts (13-76) -- The Shahnama on the wall: luster-painted, and other, tiles (77-89) -- Shahnama imagery on ceramic vessels (90-94). |
Person as subject |
Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Exhibitions |
Subject |
Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions |
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
Iran -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions |
Added name(s) |
Gonnella, Julia ed. |
Rauch, Christoph ed. |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Museum für Islamische Kunst (Berlin, Germany) |
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz |