Description
Book SynopsisErnst Grube's research spans Islamic painting from 10th-century Egypt to 19th-century Persia. This collection of studies presents his extensive scholarship, offering new materials, defining painting schools, and proposing fresh interpretations. Essential reading for art enthusiasts in Islamic and related art forms.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Three Miniatures from Fustat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Earliest Known Paintings from Islamic Cairo: Realism and Formalism:
Notes on Some Fatimid Lustre Painted Ceramic Vessels
A Coloured Drawing of the Fatimid Period in the Keir Collection
A Drawing of Wrestlers in the Cairo Museum of Islamic Art
Materialen zum Dioskurides Arabicus
Persian Painting in the Fourteenth Century: A Progress Report
The Kalilah wa Dimnah of the Istanbul University Library and the Problem of Early Jalairid Painting
Miniatures in Istanbul Libraries
Herat, Tabriz, Istanbul. The Development of a Pictorial Style
Wall-Paintings in the Seventeenth-Century Monuments of Isfahan
A Lacquered Painting from the Collection of Lester Wolfe in the Museum of Notre Dame University
Traditionalism or Forgery: Lacquered Painting in 19th-century Iran
Notes on Ottoman Painting in the 15th Century
A Unique Turkish Painting of the 15th Century
The Siyar-i Nabi of the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library
Additional Notes
Index
