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Painters, Paintings and Books - An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries (Hardcover)
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Painters, Paintings and Books - An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries (Hardcover)
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The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the
arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world - an approach much
neglected so far. Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and
India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and
poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book
making during twelfth to nineteenth century. The introduction
presents the geographical and chronological dimensions of the
study. After a brief history of Persian painting before the twelfth
century, the book discusses mural painting, manuscripts, origin of
paper and its fabrication, the composition of the page,
colours/pigments used in the paintings, painting subjects,
bookbinding, etc. The painter, man and artist, his origin, his
training, his status, aesthetics and taste, his workshop and its
organisation and distribution of tasks therein, modular
construction of the manuscripts, library, the caligraphy
surrounding the painting, its illuminations and binding are all
analysed. In fact the book reconstructs the entire process of
making an illustrated manuscript from its ground work to its
binding. Persian text and illustrations enhance the utility of the
work.
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