Description:Rogers, who was curator of Islamic art at the British Museum, taught at the U. of London, and curates the Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, is honored in this volume of 31 essays on Islamic art and architecture. Among the topics are the iconography of a camel fight, European arts and crafts at the Mamluk court, folios from the Nuzhat-nama, a second Herat bucket, Arabic signatures in Norman Sicily, paintings of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba, and the classical revival of Nur al-Din's Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya. Other chapters consider Mamluk bookbinding, Chaghatai architecture, Ottoman ceramics in Europe, and the bibliophile aghas at Topkapi Saray. The contributors are art historians and curators in the Turkey, Kuwait, Russia, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, the UK, and the US. The volume is heavily illustrated with good quality color plates. It is not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers. To get started finding Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Rogers, who was curator of Islamic art at the British Museum, taught at the U. of London, and curates the Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, is honored in this volume of 31 essays on Islamic art and architecture. Among the topics are the iconography of a camel fight, European arts and crafts at the Mamluk court, folios from the Nuzhat-nama, a second Herat bucket, Arabic signatures in Norman Sicily, paintings of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba, and the classical revival of Nur al-Din's Qastal al-Shu'aybiyya. Other chapters consider Mamluk bookbinding, Chaghatai architecture, Ottoman ceramics in Europe, and the bibliophile aghas at Topkapi Saray. The contributors are art historians and curators in the Turkey, Kuwait, Russia, Egypt, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, the UK, and the US. The volume is heavily illustrated with good quality color plates. It is not indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers. To get started finding Muqarnas, Volume 21: Essays In Honor Of J.M. Rogers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.