{"product_id":"9780907132431","title":"Studies in Persian Art, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of the development of this pivotal branch of Islamic art, which absorbed the influence of Arab and Chinese painting, and influenced in turn the miniature painting of Mughal India. This first volume concentrates on Persian painting. Seven papers examine the general evolution of painting in Persia from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, \"mostly preserved in manuscript illumination, with emphasis on that most characteristic of Persian manuscripts, \"the Shah-Nameh, the national epic. Particular attention is paid to the Timurid period and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Four reviews of exhibitions of Persian art follow. Thirteen studies are devoted to a later period, the school of painting that arose under the Qajar rulers, when Persian art flourished in such new and diverse media as oil painting and painted enamels. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vol I Contents: \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e A Survey of Persian Painting 1350-1896 \u003cbr\u003e Persian Painting and the National Epic \u003cbr\u003e Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts \u003cbr\u003e Persian Miniatures of the 16th and 17th Centuries \u003cbr\u003e Shah Abbas and the Mughal Ambassador Khan Alam: the Pictorial Record \u003cbr\u003e Areas of Controversy in Islamic Painting \u003cbr\u003e Book Illustration in Transoxiana: the Timurid Period \u003cbr\u003e Some Modern Persian Miniatures \u003cbr\u003e Persian Miniatures at the British Museum \u003cbr\u003e Persian Painting: A Loan Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum \u003cbr\u003e Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles \u003cbr\u003e Qajar Art: An Introduction \u003cbr\u003e The Court Painters of Fath Ali Shah \u003cbr\u003e The Amery Collection of Persian Oil Paintings \u003cbr\u003e Persian Royal Portraiture and the Qajars \u003cbr\u003e Some Thoughts on Qajar Lacquer \u003cbr\u003e Qajar Lacquer \u003cbr\u003e Persian Lacquer in the Bern Historical Museum \u003cbr\u003e Persian Lacquer and the Bern Historical Museum Casket \u003cbr\u003e A Pair of Royal Book-Covers \u003cbr\u003e A Lacquer Mirror Case of 1854 \u003cbr\u003e Qajar Painted Enamels \u003cbr\u003e A Royal Qajar Enamel \u003cbr\u003e The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and other Qajar Illustrated \u003cbr\u003e Books \u003cbr\u003e Inde. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pindar Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008554582256,"sku":"9780907132431","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780907132431_p0.jpg?v=1763854591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780907132431","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}