An edition of Persian poetry, painting & patronage (1998)

Persian poetry, painting & patronage

illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece

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An edition of Persian poetry, painting & patronage (1998)

Persian poetry, painting & patronage

illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece

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"Commissioned by Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza in 1556, five Iranian court calligraphers devoted nine years to transcribing the poetic text of the great Persian classic, the Haft awrang (Seven thrones), by the mystical poet Abdul-Rahman Jami. Then a team of gifted artists undertook the illumination and illustration of the manuscript. The masterpiece they created - housed today in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and known as the Freer Jami - is a sumptuous volume of some three hundred folios of elegant cursive script with richly decorated margins, thousands of multicolored section dividers, nine illuminated headings and nine colophons that begin and end the main divisions of the text, and twenty-eight narrative paintings. This book reproduces to scale the Freer Jami paintings, discusses each in detail, and introduces the manuscript's patron and artists, painting style and meaning."--BOOK JACKET.

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Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
79

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Subjects

Freer Jami, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic, Illustrations, Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic Illumination of books and manuscripts

People

Jāmī (1414-1492)

Places

Iran, Washington (D.C.)
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Cover of: Persian poetry, painting & patronage
Persian poetry, painting & patronage: illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece
1998, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Yale University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77) and index.

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Washington, D.C, New Haven
Other Titles
Persian poetry, painting, and patronage

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Dewey Decimal Class
745.6/7/0955
Library of Congress
ND3399.J35 S56 1998, ND3399.J35S56 1998

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79 p. :
Number of pages
79

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OL694014M
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persianpoetrypai00simp
ISBN 10
0300074832
LCCN
97041288
OCLC/WorldCat
37725584
Library Thing
41612
Goodreads
269265

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