Title & Author:

Safavid art and architecture / edited by Sheila R. Canby.

Publication:

London : British Museum Press, 2002.

Description:

vii, 120 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-120).
The tomb of Shah Ismāʻīl I, Ardabil / Robert Hillenbrand -- The imperial setting : Shah ʻAbbās at the Safavid shrine of Shaykh Ṣafī in Ardabil / Kishwar Rizvi -- Excavations in the western part of the monumental complex of Shaykh Ṣafī, Ardabil / Mahmoud Mousavi -- Building for the Shah : the role of Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī (Sārū Taqī) in Safavid royal patronage of architecture / Sussan Babaie -- Safavid caravanserais / Wolfram Kleiss -- Jamal va Jalāl : a link between epochs / Barbara Brend -- Bahrām Mīrzā and his collections / David J. Roxburgh -- Manuscript production at the Kāzarūnī orders in Safavid Shiraz / Filiz Çağman and Zeren Tanındı -- Persian portraits of the Russian ambassadors / Adel T. Adamova -- A dispersed Late-Safavid copy of the Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā-yi Khāqān Sāhibqirān / Eleanor Sims -- Travelling pattern : a Qurʼānic illumination and its secular source / Anna Contadini -- Pounces for textiles or pounces for pictures? / Sheila R. Canby -- Style from top to toe : how to dress in Isfahan / Jennifer Scarce -- Safavid carpets and nineteenth-century European notions / Patricia L. Baker -- Textiles of the Safavid period woven with gold and their connection with figural painting / Zohreh Ruhfar -- Of prayers and poems on Safavid bronzes / Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Riżā ʻAbbāsī's wine pot and other problems of Safavid ceramics / Lisa Golombek -- The conservation of the Persian and related paintings in the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan / Ann Leane -- A comparative study of Safavid paper / Helen Loveday.

Summary:

The era of Safavid rule was a time of religious and political development in Iran, when the arts attained new heights of brilliance and architecture flourished. This volume deals with Safavid painting and the conservation of works from this period.

ISBN:

071411152X
9780714111520
0714124044
9780714124049

Subject:

Safawiden Dynastie : 1501-1722
Safawiden.
Art, Iranian.
Architecture Iran.
Art, Safavid.
Architecture, Safavid.
Iran History Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
Art séfévide.
Architecture séfévide.
Art iranien.
Architecture
Ṣafavid Dynasty (Iran)
Islamische Architektur
Kongress
Kunst
Bouwkunst.
Iran History Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
Iran Histoire 1501-1736 (Séfévides)
Iran

Form/genre:

Kongress London 1998.
History

Added entries:

Canby, Sheila R.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241148
Call No.: BIB 171054
Status: Available