Description
Book SynopsisOver the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia.
Table of ContentsPreface
A Survey of Persian Painting 1350-1896
Persian Painting and the National Epic
Persian Miniatures and Manuscripts
Persian Miniatures of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Shah Abbas and the Mughal Ambassador Khan Alam: the Pictorial Record
Areas of Controversy in Islamic Painting
Book Illustration in Transoxiana: the Timurid Period
Some Modern Persian Miniatures
Persian Miniatures at the British Museum
Persian Painting: A Loan Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Persian Miniature Painting from Collections in the British Isles
Qajar Art: An Introduction
The Court Painters of Fath Ali Shah
The Amery Collection of Persian Oil Paintings
Persian Royal Portraiture and the Qajars
Some Thoughts on Qajar Lacquer
Qajar Lacquer
Persian Lacquer in the Bern Historical Museum
Persian Lacquer and the Bern Historical Museum Casket
A Pair of Royal Book-Covers
A Lacquer Mirror Case of 1854
Qajar Painted Enamels
A Royal Qajar Enamel
The Tehran Nizami of 1848 and other Qajar Illustrated
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