Prefacing the Image : The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran /

This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to the study of these s...

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Main Author: Roxburgh, David (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2001.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Muqarnas, Supplements ; 9.

Subjects:

Art criticism > Iran > History > Sources.

Art, Safavid > Historiography > Sources.

Islamic art > Historiography.

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