The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800
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The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800
（Yale University Press Pelican history of art）
Yale University Press, 1995, c1994
[Repr. ed. with corrections]
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- : pbk
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Continuation of: The art and architecture of Islam 650-1250 / Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1987. (The Pelican history of art)
"Reprinted with corrections"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical notes (p. [315]-332), bibliography (p. [333]-339), and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780300058888
Description
Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art - the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp "Shahnama" - were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early 13th century to the advent of European colonial rule in the 19th century. This work surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The later medieval period - 1250-1500: architecture in Iran and Central Asia under the Ilkhanids
- art in Iran and Central Asia under the Ilkhanids
- architecture in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids
- art in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids
- architecture in Egypt under the Bahri Mamluks
- architecture in Egypt, Syria and Arabia under the Burji Mamluks
- art in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks
- architecture and art in the Maghrib under the Nasrids, Merinids and Hafsids
- architecture and art in Anatolia under the Beyliks and early Ottomans
- architecture and art in the sultanates of India. Part 2 The age of the great empires - 1500-1800: art in Iran under the Safavids
- architecture in Iran under the Safavids
- architecture and art of Central Asia under the Uzbeks
- architecture in Anatolia, the Levant, and the Balkans under the Ottomans
- art in Anatolia, the Levant, and the Balkans under the Ottomans
- architecture in India under the Mughals
- art in India under the Mughals
- architecture and art in Egypt and North Africa under the Sharifian dynastics of Morocco
- the legacies of later Islamic art.
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: pbk ISBN 9780300064650
Description
Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art-the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, and the Tahmasp Shahnama-were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This beautiful book surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era.
Conceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, the book follows the general format of the first volume, with chronological and regional divisions and architecture treated separately from the other arts. The authors describe over two hundred works of Islamic art of this period and also investigate broader social and economic contexts, considering such topics as function, patronage, and meaning. They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles. The authors conclude with a provocative essay on the varied legacies of Islamic art in Europe and the Islamic lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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