Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art.
Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media from the 10th to the 16th century - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how Greater Iranian artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their audiences.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014. |
Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 The Art of Writing: A Bowl from Samarqand
- Provenance
- The ceramic setting
- Inscriptions
- Script
- Clientele
- Wider horizons
- Afterlife
- CHAPTER 3 Perfuming the Air: A Rosewater Sprinkler from Herat
- Provenance
- The geographical and historical setting
- Metalwares from Herat
- Patronage
- Function
- Decoration
- Afterlife
- CHAPTER 4 Monumentality under the Mongols: The Tomb of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya
- Construction and redecoration
- Reasons for redecoration
- The pious foundation
- The architectural setting
- The tomb as inspiration for later Mongol rulers
- The tomb as inspiration for the Ilkhanids' rivals
- Afterlife
- CHAPTER 5 A Romantic Interlude: The Wedding Celebrations from a Manuscript withThree Poems by Khwaju Kirmani
- The text and its calligrapher
- The illustrated folios
- Adding the paintings
- The royal setting
- The role of women
- Afterlife
- CHAPTER 6 Proclaiming Sovereignty: The Ardabil Carpets
- Provenance
- The inscription
- Gifts to shrines
- Why Ardabil in the 1540s?
- The repurposed Jannat Saray
- Afterlife at the shrine
- Afterlife in the west
- CHAPTER 7 Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Index.