Persian art : image-making in Eurasia /

"Explores the pictorial, material and technological richness of the Persian world. In this illustrated book, nine contributors explore multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the Persian cultural realm, encompassing West Asia, Anatolia, Central Asia, South Asia, East A...

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Author / Creator: Kadoi, Yuka (Editor)
Other Authors / Creators:Kadoi, Yuka, author, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • The visual culture of greater Iran : some examples of Kushano-Sasanian art / Judith A. Lerner
  • The late Sasanian figurative capitals at Taq-i Bustan : proposals regarding identification and origins / Matteo Compareti
  • Architecture of the wider Persian world : from central Asia to western Anatolia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Richard Piran McClary
  • From acquisition to display : the reception of Chinese ceramics in the pre-modern Persian world / Yuka Kadoi
  • Devotion and protection : four amuletic scrolls from Safavid Persia / Tobias Nunlist
  • The minarets of Hurmuzgan / Ivan Szanto
  • Persian, Indian or Indo-Persian? The study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century knotted pile carpets / Raquel Santos
  • The calligraphic art of Mishkin Qalam / Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari
  • The Kashan Mihrab in Berlin : a historiography of Persian lustreware / Markus Ritter.