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Turkish delights /

: 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. : Bibliography : pages 118-119. : 0500510377

Published 2011
Before the pyramids : the origins of Egyptian civilization /

: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... March 28-December 31, 2011"-- Title page verso. : 288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288). : 9781885923820 (pbk.)
1885923821 (pbk.)

Published 2018
Affect, emotion, and subjectivity in early modern Muslim Empires : new studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal art and culture /

: Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran,Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period. Contributors are: Sussan Babaie, Chanchal Dadlani, Jamal Elias, Emine Fetvaci, Christiane Gruber, Sylvia Hougteling, Kishwar Rizvi, Sunil Sharma, and Marianna Shreve Simpson.
: 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004352841 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2022
Early Anglo-Saxon Christian reliquaries /

: This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789694093 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2011
Muṣṭafá Alī's Epic deeds of artists : a critical edition of the earliest Ottoman text about the calligraphers and painters of the Islamic world /

: The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli's (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli's biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-490) and index. : 9789047441076 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
Constantinople : Istanbul's historical heritage /

: includes index. : 400p. : ill. ; .

Weinstudien : Untersuchungen zu Anbau, Produktion und Konsum des Weins im arabisch-islamischen Mittelalter /

: xix, 134 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Bibliography : pages [123]-134. : 3447022647

Published 2015
Pearls on a string : artists, patrons, and poets at the great Islamic courts /

: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Pearls on a String : Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. Exhibition dates, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, November 8, 2015-January 31, 2016; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, February 26-May 8, 2016"--Colophon. : xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9780295995243 (alk. paper)

Published 2015
God is the light of the heavens and the earth : light in Islamic art and culture /

: "This volume, the latest in a series based on the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposia on Islamic Art and Culture, presents written versions of the lectures delivered in Palermo, Sicily, from 9-11 November 2013"--Page 3. : xi, 357 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm : Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-346) and index. : 9780300215281
0300215282

Published 2015
Receptions of antiquity, constructions of gender in European art, 1300-1600 /

: Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.
: 1 online resource (XV, 467 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004289697 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
Early capitals of Islamic culture : the artistic legacy of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad (650-950) /

: On the occasion of an exhibition held at Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, October 14, 2014 - January 17, 2015.
English and Arabic texts numbered in opposite directions. : 71, 71 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm. : 9783777422442

Published 2000
The Great Mosque of Damascus : Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture /

: The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and decorative features of the Umayyad mosque, to locate it within its broader urban context, and to consider its role within al-Walīd's unprecedented programme of architectural patronage. The work explores the intracultural and intercultural functions of religious architecture within an official visual discourse intended to project a distinctive Muslim identity in a manner determined by Umayyad political aspirations. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the Umayyad caliphate and Byzantium.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004491618
9789004116382

Published 2018
Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art /

: Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant's fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers' pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004375253 : 2213-0659 ;

The Great Mosque of Damascus : studies on the makings of an Ummayad visual culture /

: xx, 330 pages, [66] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-318) and indexes. : 0920-2403 ;

Published 1965
Painting in Islam : a study of the place of pictorial art in Muslim culture /

: Unabridged republication of the work first published in 1928, with a new introdction. : xviii, 159 page : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Published 2016
Les representations architecturales dans l'iconographie Neo-Assyrienne /

: In this book Nicolas Gillmann provides scholars as well as non-specialists with a comprehensive study of architectural representations in Neo Assyrian iconography. The author answers three important questions: How are Mesopotamian images conceived? What rules are presiding over them and how are they to be interpreted by modern viewers? Can the architectural representations be of some use to archaeologists or are they merely schematic depictions of given building types? Nicolas Gillmann shows that new conclusions can be reached once the reader is given the right reading keys and interpretation framework.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004324015 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1960
City invincible : a Symposium on Urbanization and Cultural Development in the Ancient Near East...

: xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded) ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.

Published 2021
La splendeur des dieux: Quatre études iconographiques sur l'hellénisme égyptien (2 vols) /

: "Why are the rays of the Greek god Helios on the forehead of a crocodile-headed Egyptian deity? Navigating the maze of Greek and Egyptian communities and creeds, Gaëlle Tallet investigates the plasticity of material culture in the polytheistic context of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Using the Ariadne's thread of the manufacturing of new images, suitable to new needs and new understandings of the divine, La Splendeur des dieux opens the doors of the workshops where these images were designed, ordered and crafted. Tallet offers a full re-appraisal of the cultural balance of powers in Graeco-Roman Egypt, depicting the indigenous clergies and artists as integratedactors of an Egyptian Hellenicity that helped promote and preserve their millenaries-old traditions. Que viennent faire les rayons solaires du dieu grec Hélios sur le front d'un dieu crocodile égyptien ? Cette question est au point de départ d'une enquête au cœur de la plasticité du système polythéiste de l'Égypte gréco-romaine. Parcourant le labyrinthe des diverses communautés et croyances grecques et égyptiennes, Gaëlle Tallet utilise le fil d'Ariane de la production des images religieuses, réponses à de nouveaux besoins et de nouvelles perceptions du divin, et ouvre les portes des ateliers où elles ont été conçues, commandées et façonnées. La Splendeur des dieux propose une réévaluation du rôle des clergés et des artistes indigènes dans l'élaboration d'un hellénisme proprement égyptien, qui leur a permis de promouvoir et préserver des traditions millénaires"--
: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Université de Strasbourg, 2006, under the title: Les dieux à couronne radiée dans l'iconographie de l'Egypte gréco-romaine. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004428928
9789004428911

Published 2011
Hellenizing art in ancient Nubia, 300 BC-AD 250, and its Egyptian model s a study in "acculturation" /

: Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman, Hellenizing, and "hybrid" elements of Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian culture. The author begins with a history of Nubian art and a critical survey of the literature on Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptian art. Special chapters are then devoted to the discussion of the Egyptian-Greek interaction in the arts of Ptolemaic Egypt, the place of Egyptian Hellenistic and Hellenizing art within the oikumene, the pluralistic visual world of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, as well as on the specific genre of terracotta sculpture. Utilizing examples from Meroe City and Musawwarat es Sufra, the author argues that cultural transfer from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to Nubia resulted in an inward-focused adaptation. Therefore, the resulting Nubian art from this period expresses only those aspects of Egyptian and Greek art that are compatible with indigenous Nubian goals.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004211292 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
Intangible spirits and graven images : the iconography of deities in the pre-Islamic Iranian world /

: Winner of the the Roman and Tania Ghirshman Prize 2015 by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. This prize was established in 1973 by the donation made by Roman Ghirshman, one of the prominent French archaeologists of Pre-Islamic Iran. It is awarded annually for a publication in the field of Pre-Islamic Iranian Studies. In Intangible Spirits and Graven Images , Michael Shenkar investigates the perception of ancient Iranian deities and their representation in the Iranian cults. This ground-breaking study traces the evolution of the images of these deities, analyses the origin of their iconography, and evaluates their significance. Shenkar also explores the perception of anthropomorphism and aniconism in ancient Iranian religious imagery, with reference to the material evidence and the written sources, and reassesses the value of the Avestan and Middle Persian texts that are traditionally employed to illuminate Iranian religious imagery. In doing so, this book provides important new insights into the religion and culture of ancient Iran prior to the Islamic conquest.
: Revision of the author's thesis--Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013. : 1 online resource (xxii, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004281493 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.