Princes, dervishes and dragons : the tile arcade from Safavid Isfahan (c.1685-95) /
"Towards the end of the 19th century much of Iran's architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the 17th-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. However, from one of these, local dealers were able to salvage a series of pictorial arch-shaped panels compose...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2025]
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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| Summary: | "Towards the end of the 19th century much of Iran's architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the 17th-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. However, from one of these, local dealers were able to salvage a series of pictorial arch-shaped panels composed of black-line ("cuerda seca") tiles. Through their research, Lisa Golombek and Robert B. Mason have digitally assembled 36 friezes once part of this set and created a new corpus of Safavid pictorial art -- the Safavid Tile Arcade"--Book jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Part of the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art Series, series editor: Robert Hillenbrand. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399538695 1399538691 |