Studies in Islamic Painting

Studies in Islamic Painting

by Ernst Grube
Studies in Islamic Painting

Studies in Islamic Painting

by Ernst Grube

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Overview

Ernst Grube's research on Islamic painting over more than three decades has dealt with materials, issues and problems ranging from 10th-century Egypt through Ottoman Turkey to 19th-century Persia. The studies collected in this volume represent the breadth of his scholarship: they collect and lay new materials before the reader, isolate and define schools of painting as thinking about them coalesces, and propose new interpretations of materials already well-known to scholars and students. Most of these studies are reprinted without major alterations, but additional notes at the end make some essential readjustments. Article 5, a study of a drawing on a so-called 'Fustat-Fragment', possibly of 9th-century date, has 50 pages of illustrations of such fragments, not included in the original article and most of them not published before. Professor Grube brings the methodological approach of a Western Medievalist to the study of a primary form of Islamic art. These articles are all essential reading for anyone interested in painting as a major form of art not only in the lands where Islam held sway but also in Late Classical Antiquity, Medieval Europe and Byzantium.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780907132622
Publisher: Pindar Press
Publication date: 12/31/1995
Pages: 558
Product dimensions: 6.77(w) x 9.53(h) x 1.57(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Three Miniatures from Fustat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Earliest Known Paintings from Islamic Cairo: Realism and Formalism: Notes on Some Fatimid Lustre Painted Ceramic Vessels A Coloured Drawing of the Fatimid Period in the Keir Collection A Drawing of Wrestlers in the Cairo Museum of Islamic Art Materialen zum Dioskurides Arabicus Persian Painting in the Fourteenth Century: A Progress Report The Kalīlah wa Dimnah of the Istanbul University Library and the Problem of Early Jalairid Painting Miniatures in Istanbul Libraries Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul. The Development of a Pictorial Style Wall-Paintings in the Seventeenth-Century Monuments of Isfahan A Lacquered Painting from the Collection of Lester Wolfe in the Museum of Notre Dame University Traditionalism or Forgery: Lacquered Painting in 19th-century Iran Notes on Ottoman Painting in the 15th Century A Unique Turkish Painting of the 15th Century The Siyar-i Nabi of the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library Additional Notes Index
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