Art & Architecture
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Ornament and Malta: An Introduction [Paperback]
Alexander Debono (Editor)
£22.00ISBN: 9789993273868
Published by : Midsea Books
This catalogue covers the latest of a series of international exhibitions staged by Heritage Malta. The exhibition in Malta includes over one hundred pieces from the Khalili Collection. Most were made by, or at the workshop of, Plácido Zuloaga in ... .... Learn More -
Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum [Paperback]
Robert G. Hoyland (Author); Venetia Porter (Author); Robert Hoyland (Author); Alexander Morton (Author); Shailendra Bandhare (Author); V Porter (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861591602
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 160
This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field.
The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering... .... Learn More -
Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh [Hardback]
Charles Melville (Author);Barbara Brend (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781848853324
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Composed more than a millennium ago, the "Shahnameh" - the great royal book of the Persian court - recounts the history of the Persian people from its mythic origins down to the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. The contributors shed lig... .... Learn More -
Islamic Arts From Spain [Hardback]
Mariam Rosser-Owen (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781851775989
Published by : V & A Publications
Accompanied by a generous selection of illustrations from the collections of the V&A, this book traces the development of Islamic art and architecture in Spain from the hey-day of the medieval kingdoms, to its final flourishing in Granada, and ... .... Learn More -
The Minarets of Cairo [Hardback]
Doris Behrens-Abouseif (Author)
£49.50ISBN: 9781848855397
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
In what will surely be seen as the definitive publication on the subject Doris Behrens-Abouseif surveys, describes and analyses every historically significant Cairo minaret, and also includes several which we have survived only in photographs o... .... Learn More -
Mamluk History Though Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria [Hardback]
Nasser O Rabbat (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781845119645
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
In this collection of collection of his essays, Nasser Rabbat offers an innovative approach to the history of the Mamluks - through readings of the spectacular architecture of the period. Drawing on examples from throughout both Egypt and Syria... .... Learn More -
Dekorelemente der Elfenbeinskulpturen des Kalifats von Córdoba (Mitte 10. bis Anfang 11. Jahrhundert) [Hardback]
Christian Ewert (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9783895007057
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: MADRIDER BEITRäGE
Volume: 31
English summary: The life work of the architect and art historian Christian Ewert was the investigation and analysis of west Islamic architectural adornment, from its flowering in the 10th Century through to the 12th Century. His last monog... .... Learn More -
Image Making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Early Muslim World [Hardback]
Anthony Cutler (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780754659495
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume, which collects articles by Anthony Cutler. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical,... .... Learn More -
Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4: The Early Islamic House [Hardback]
P. M. Michele Daviau (Author)
£143.00ISBN: 9789004175525
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Much of the archaeology of Late Antique period remains in Jordan has concentrated on public buildings: churches, mosques, theatres, baths, and their major architectural features, such as mosaic floors. In this fourth report of the excavations a... .... Learn More -
The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th centuries, part 2 [Hardback]
J.M. Rogers (Author);Manijeh Bayani (Author);Tim Stanley (Author)
£89.00ISBN: 9781874780762
Published by : Khalili Collections
Series: NDK COLLECTION OF ISLAMIC ART
Volume: IV
This, the second of the 2 volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, covers the 19th century in Iran and the Ottoman Empire. It contains original, groundbreaking essays and entries on some 70 fine examples, reveali... .... Learn More