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Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600

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David J. Roxburgh

Royal Academy Books, 2005

Ottoman (turkish) Art
This book shows the Ottoman Art of more than 1000 years. It is not only the Turkish culture, but the whole Turk culture described by the author. Various paintings, sculptures, ceramics, etc are also shown in this wonderful book of Turk Art. The emphasis is on Ottoman Art with its heigth of Süleyman the Magnificent in the 17th century.

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World (Muqarnas)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2000

Topics covered include the introduction of paper to the Islamic lands and the development of the illustrated manuscript, the beginning of the illustrated Arabic book, late 16th century manuscript production in Shiraz and the theory and practice of portraiture in the Persian tradition.

Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900 (Museum of Fine Arts)
David J. Roxburgh, Mary McWilliams

Museum Fine Arts Houston, 2008

In Islamic culture, calligraphy has long been considered a quintessential art form. This beautiful writing practice constitutes an expression of piety, and calligraphers are among the most highly esteemed artists. Traces of the Calligrapher portrays the intimate world of the calligrapher during the early modern period of Islamic culture. It brings together the ?tools of the trade??works in their own right that are rarely exhibited or ...

Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur'an (Houston Museum of Fine Arts)
David J. Roxburgh

Museum Fine Arts Houston, 2008

The art of Islamic calligraphy developed from the 7th to the 14th century, beginning in western Arabia, spreading south to Yemen and north to the Near East, and continuing east and west to Iran, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain. This handsome book demonstrates the breadth and beauty of Islamic calligraphy across centuries and continents, as seen in rare early folios of the Qur?an. Noted scholar David J. Roxburgh begins by discussing the ...

The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection
David J. Roxburgh

Yale University Press, 2005

This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the ...

Prefacing the Image: The Writing Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran (Muqarnas Supplement) (Muqarnas ...
David J. Roxburgh

Brill Academic Publishers, 2000

This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to the study of these sources are examined, followed by an analysis of the sociohistorical court-centered context; the circumstances of the texts' composition, reception, ...