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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 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, Timurid--Afghanistan--Herat.
- Miniature painting, Timurid.
- British Library--Manuscript--Oriental 6810--Illustrations.
- British Library.
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203. Khamsah--Illustrations.
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Summary:
- In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Daʿadli 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 Daʿadli 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Introduction
- Historical and Cultural Contexts
- Focusing the Gaze in Late Timurid Painting
- The Iskandar Cycle
- Making Justice
- Death and Annihilation
- Concluding the Poetics of Painting
- Epilogue
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.
- 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 and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-39841-4
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004398412 DOI
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