Early Persian Painting
Title | Early Persian Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard O'Kane |
Publisher | I. B. Tauris |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-08-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781860648526 |
Kalila wa Dimna (or The Fables of Bidpai ) is one of the gems of world culture, having been translated through the centuries everywhere from China to Spain. Kalila wa Dimna are subtle and suggestive moral tales– a kind of repository of wisdom and understanding about the human condition. It was the most commonly illustrated medieval Islamic texts. This book focuses on the group of seven Persian manuscripts from the second half of the 14th century, which contain several of the finest masterpieces of Persian painting. It is fully illistrated throughout with the paintings that accompany the fables.
Peerless Images
Title | Peerless Images PDF eBook |
Author | Vice-President Eleanor G Sims |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300090382 |
This book is the first survey of the figural arts of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century ever to consider themes, rather than styles. Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depicted on them through the ages are remarkably consistent. Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these categories, noting not only how they illustrate archetypal themes but also what it is about them that is unique. She also discusses the ways that Iranian art both influenced and was influenced by invaders and neighboring lands. Boris I. Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst J. Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informative bibliography.
Persian Art & Architecture
Title | Persian Art & Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Stierlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780500516423 |
From monumental architecture to miniature paintings, sumptuous carpets, and ceramics: the decorative profusion of the arts of Persia captured in glorious detail through hundreds of color photographs
Persian Miniature Painting and Its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India
Title | Persian Miniature Painting and Its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India PDF eBook |
Author | Norah M. Titley |
Publisher | London : British Library |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN |
Persian Painting
Title | Persian Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila R. Canby |
Publisher | Interlink Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781566565738 |
Jewel-like colors, rich patterns, precise execution and virtuoso draftmanship characterize the best of Persian miniature painting: the perfect realization of an ideal world. This fully illustrated book provides a concise account of Persian painting from about 1300 to 1900. Beginning with the materials and tools which enabled the artists to achieve their remarkable effects, Sheila Canby goes on to survey the stylistic development of Persian painting and the influences upon it of over six centuries of Iran’s turbulent history.
Persian Art
Title | Persian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Yuka Kadoi |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781474411158 |
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 Asia and Europe. Each chapter examines the historical, religious or scientific role of visual culture in the shaping, influencing and transforming of distinctive 'Persian' aesthetics across the various historical periods, ranging from pre-Islamic, medieval and early modern Islamic to modern times.
Persian Painting
Title | Persian Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Cary Welch |
Publisher | George Braziller |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian |
ISBN | 9780807608135 |