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Facts and artefacts: art in the Islamic world : festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday

Facts and artefacts: art in the Islamic world : festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday
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ISBN 9004157824 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004157828 (hardback : alk. paper)
Title Facts and artefacts : art in the Islamic world : festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday / edited by Annette Hagedorn, Avinoam Shalem
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
Physical desc. xxvii, 496 p. ; ill. (b&w), maps ; 25 cm.
Series Islamic history and civilization Studies and texts 68
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"Jens Kröger’s list of publications": p. [xix]-xxvii
Contents What the basket contained: some datable glass bottles from the eastern Islamic world / Kjeld von Folsach. -- Fatimid or not Fatimid? That is the question: some notes on two dishes in the Treasury of San Marco in Venice / Ernst J. Grube. -- An emerald of glass: the emerald of Charlemagne at Mittelzell, Reichenau / Ingeborg Krueger. -- The sacrifice of Isaac revisited: additional observations on a theme in Sasanian glyptic art / Judith A. Lerner. -- From San Marco to South Arabia: observations on Sasanian cut glass / St John Simpson. -- Three rock crystal bottles in Old Castile (Spain) / Fernando Valdés. -- Another gilt glass bottle / Oliver Watson. -- An unusual fragment of Ayyubid glass / David Whitehouse. -- Analysing a pictorial narrative: the Aquamanile in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg / Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen. -- Late Ottoman door knockers from Syria / Stefan Heidemann. -- A mirror disc with inscriptions / Gisela Helmecke. -- The 'Parthian' bronze bust in the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art and Parthian-Sasanian aristocratic headgear / Dietrich Huff. -- From individual manufacturing to mass production: notes on the aesthetic of the Islamic traded ivories of the Crusader era / Avinoam Shalem. -- On the long journey from east to west: dragons from Tibet / Friedrich Spuhler. -- Plugging the gap: Mamluk export metalwork 1375-1475 / Rachel Ward. -- Joseph's garments: remarks on colour symbolism in Persian manuscripts / Eva Baer. -- Ibrahim ibn Adham: darling of the angels / Almut v. Gladiss. -- The Berlin Indian world map / Elke Niewöhner-Eberhard. -- Behind the picture: the other sides of the Boston-New York Rest after the hunt / Eleanor Sims. -- Oriental themes in the work of Moritz von Schwind / Silke Bettermann. -- The Islamic-Oriental carpet in Giotto's Fresco Christmas mass at Greccio in Assisi / Werner Brüggerman. -- Louis Comfort Tiffany's journey to North Africa in 1870 and the influence of Islamic art on his work / Annette Hagedorn. -- Notes on the ornamentation of the domes in Iranian sacred buildings / Barbara Finster. -- The development of stucco decoration in Northern Syria of the 8th and 9th centuries and the bevelled style of Samarra / Claus-Peter Haase. -- Vēh Ardashīr and the identification of the ruins at al-Madāʼin / Stefan R. Hauser.
Subject Art, Islamic
Decorative arts, Islamic
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic
Architecture, Islamic
Added name(s) Kröger, Jens
Hagedorn, Annette
Shalem, Avinoam
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