Esoteric images : decoding the late Herat school of painting /
In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Daʿadli decodes the pictorial language which flourished in the city of Herat, modern Afghanistan, under the rule of the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506). This study focuses on one illustrated manuscript of a...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
Series:
Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture
25.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.
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Call Number: ND3399.N5 D33 2019
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Introduction
- Historical and Cultural Contexts
- Focusing the Gaze in Late Timurid Painting
- The Iskandar Cycle
- Making Justice
- Death and Annihilation
- Concluding the Poetics of Painting
- Epilogue
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.