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Persian Painting - The Arts of the Book and Portraiture (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,182
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Persian Painting - The Arts of the Book and Portraiture (Hardcover): Adel T Adamova, Manijeh Bayani

Persian Painting - The Arts of the Book and Portraiture (Hardcover)

Adel T Adamova, Manijeh Bayani

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This is a luxuriously illustrated catalogue of more than forty extraordinary Persian miniature paintings, illuminated manuscripts and elaborately decorated bookbindings in The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, dating from the period before the Mongol invasions (11th12th centuries CE) to the early 20th century. It includes rare examples from the pre-Mongol invasion period; fine illuminations of Quran manuscripts; Munis al-Ahrar , an important early fourteenth-century anthology by Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din al-Jajarmi; material from dispersed manuscripts of Firdawsis Shah-nameh; two previously unpublished copies of Qazwinis Ajaib al-Makhluqat; three copies of Nizamis Khamsah; Sadis Golestan; and Jamis Yusuf and Zulaykha and Subhat al-Abrar as well as paintings from dispersed Safavid and post-Safavid albums, and seventeenth- century bookbindings and oil paintings from the Zand and Qajar periods.

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Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2015
Authors: Adel T Adamova • Manijeh Bayani
Dimensions: 276 x 219 x 52mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-97067-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Oriental art
LSN: 0-500-97067-X
Barcode: 9780500970676

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