| Title: | Art of the Persian courts: selections from the Art and History Trust Collection |
| Author: | Abolala Soudavar, with a contribution by Milo Cleveland Beach |
| Translator: | |
| Editor: | Suzanne Kotz |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | |
| Place: | New York |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Pages: | 423 |
| ISBN: | 0847816605 |
| File: | PDF, MB |
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Abolala Soudavar. Art of the Persian courts: selections from the Art and History Trust Collection. With a contribution by Milo Cleveland Beach; Edited by Suzanne Kotz. New York: Rizzoli, 1992, 423 p. ISBN 0847816605
Contents
Preface … 9
Notes to the Reader … 11
Introduction … 13
Chapter 1: The Mongols … 27
Chapter 2: Teymur … 57
Chapter 3: The Court of Soltan Hosayn Mirza Bayqara … 85
Chapter 4: The Turkaman Dynasties … 127
Chapter 5: The Safavid Synthesis … 147
Chapter 6: Sixteenth-Century Painting … 205
Chapter 7: Reza-e Abbasi and Esfahan Painting … 261
Chapter 8: Persian Culture and Mughal India … 303
Chapter 9: European and Indian Influences … 365
Chapter 10: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Iran … 381
Appendix: Calligraphers Copying Masters … 402
Appendix: Persian as an Administrative Language … 406
Appendix: The Divine Glory … 410
Index … 417