Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Tibetan.

Painting, Tibetan.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Pub, 2012.

Summary:

The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script types and 14 stupa models from the rich world of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9004180141

9789004180147

OCLC:

794033465

Publisher Number:

99949622648