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David J. Roxburgh
A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts
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This source study examines prefaces to Persian albums (ca. 1491-1609) from a variety of perspectives historical, literary, and cultural to analyze the emergence, practice, and principles of art historical writing…
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Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod offers innovative analyses and interpretations of both familiar and previously unpublished objects and monuments, its essays adopting the broad…
Topics covered include the introduction of paper to the Islamic lands and the development of the illustrated manuscript, the beginning of the illustrated Arabic book, late 16th century manuscript production…
Celebrating a major collection of Islamic art, this volume spans the entire history of Islam to bring together items produced throughout the vast region between Andalusia and Mughal India
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The Diagram as Paradigm explores medieval diagrams in Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West. Case studies consider the theoretical dimensions of diagramming in historical disciplines ranging from philosophy…
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from August 26, 2017 through January 7, 2018…
Harvard’s Qajar Album–57 folios, with nearly 150 drawings, paintings, prints, and embossed works–is a remarkably wide-ranging collection of human, animal, and floral studies; narrative compositions inspired by Persian classic literature…
