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Persian manuscripts, paintings and drawings from the 15th to the early 20th century in the Hermitage collection

Persian manuscripts, paintings and drawings from the 15th to the early 20th century in the Hermitage collection
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ISBN 1898592071 (hbk.)
9781898592075 (hbk.)
Author Adamova, A. T. (Adelʹ Tigranovna)
Title Persian manuscripts, paintings and drawings from the 15th to the early 20th century in the Hermitage collection / by Adel Adamova
Publisher London : Azimuth Editions, 2012
Physical desc. 412 p. ; col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Note Translated edition; first published in Russian by the State Hermitage Museum, 2010.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-412).
Contents Persian painting from the 14th to the early 20th centuries: a short history -- The pre-Mongol and Mongol periods (10th to 14th centuries): the reign of monumental painting -- The Timurid and early Safavid periods (15th to mid-16th centuries): the Golden Age of the manuscript book and book illustration -- The Safavid period (16th to early 18th centuries): miniatures and drawings as single-page compositions -- The post-Safavid period (18th to 19th centuries): painting in oils -- Russian-Iranian relations from the 16th to the 19th centuries: diplomacy and art -- Persian painting in the Hermitage. The formation and study of the collection of Persian paintings in the Hermitage -- The 1431 Khamsah of Nizami: history of the manuscript and its older repairs -- The Polovtsov Album and the compilation of illustrated albums (murraqqʿāt) -- Persian lacquer -- Miniatures and drawings of the 19th and early 20th centuries imitating works of the Safavid period -- Plates: selected works from the collection -- Catalogue. Pt. 1: Illustrated and illuminated Persian manuscripts -- Pt. 2: Miniatures and drawings as single-page compositions, oil paintings and lacquer -- Pt. 3: Miniatures and drawings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries imitating Safavid schools -- Appendices. Appendix 1: Two paintings of indeterminate attribution -- Appendix 2: Manuscripts without miniatures or illumination.
Corporate name Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia) -- Catalogs
Subject Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Catalogs
Manuscripts, Persian -- Catalogs
Drawing, Iranian -- Catalogs
Art, Iranian -- Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg -- Catalogs
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