Esoteric images : decoding the late Herat school of painting / by Tawfiq Daʻadli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daʻadli, Tawfiq, 1979- author.

Series:

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 25.

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Timurid--Afghanistan--Herat.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Timurid.

Miniature painting--Afghanistan--Herat.

Miniature painting.

Illustration of books.

Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. Khamsah--Illustrations.

Niẓāmī Ganjavī.

British Library--Manuscript--Oriental 6810--Illustrations.

British Library.

Khamsah (Niẓāmī Ganjavī).

Afghanistan--Herat.

Physical Description:

xi, 177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In 'Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting' Tawfiq Da'adli decodes the pictorial language which flourished in the city of Herat, modern Afghanistan, under the rule of the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506). This study focuses on one illustrated manuscript of a poem entitled 'Khamsa' by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, kept in the British Library under code Or.6810. Tawfiq Da'adli decodes the paintings, reveals the syntax behind them and thus deciphers the message of the whole manuscript. The book combines scholarly efforts to interpret theological-political lessons embedded in one of the foremost Persian schools of art against the background of the court dynamic of an influential medieval power in its final years.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) under alternative title: Pictorial language of the Herat school of painting.

Includes bibliographical references ([163]-173) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Daʻadli, Tawfiq, 1979- author. Esoteric images

ISBN:

9789004398009

9004398007

OCLC:

1081437396

Publisher Number:

99980903030