Princes, Dervishes and Dragons : The Tile Arcade from Safavid Isfahan (C. 1685-95) / Lisa Golombek and Robert B. Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golombek, Lisa.

Contributor:

Mason, Robert B.

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Assembled digitally from worldwide collections, this Arcade of 36 colourful tile panels exposes for the first time religious themes as well as more traditional themes for architectural decoration, and adds a new work to the canon of seventeenth-century Persian art.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Images

List of Tables

Preface

Series Editor's Foreword

Map of Iran, Major Cities

Map of Isfahan in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Part I The Safavid Tile Arcade in Context

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Creating and Recreating the Friezes

Chapter 3 Precedents for Tile Panels in Black-line Technique

the Hasht Behesht Palace

Chapter 4 The Art and the Artists of the Tile Arches

Chapter 5 The Iconographic Programme

Chapter 6 The Quest for the Original Site

Chapter 7 The 'Afterlife' of the Safavid Tile Arcade

Part II Catalogue of Friezes

Templates Reconstruction of Friezes

Chapter 8 Catalogue Entries

Concordance of Spandrel Numbering (Catalogue Numbers and SP Numbers)

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781399538718

1399538713

9781399538725

1399538721

OCLC:

1496394028