The art and architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blair, Sheila, author.

Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.), author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Series:

Yale University Press Pelican history of art.

Yale University Press Pelican history of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture.

Islamic art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) : 300 illustrations, plans

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.

Summary:

"Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art-- the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, and the Tahmasp Shahnama-- were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This beautiful book surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era. Conceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, the book follows the general format of the first volume, with chronological and regional divisions and architecture treated separately from the other arts. The authors describe over two hundred works of Islamic art of this period and also investigate broader social and economic contexts, considering such topics as function, patronage, and meaning. They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles. The authors conclude with a provocative essay on the varied legacies of Islamic art in Europe and the Islamic lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Architecture in Iran and Central Asia under the Ilkhanids and their successors

The arts in Iran and Central Asia under the Ilkhanids and their successors

Architecture in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids and their contemporaries

The arts in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids and their contemporaries

Architecture in Egypt under the Bahri Mamluks (1260-1389)

Architecture in Egypt, Syria, and Arabia under the Circassian Mamluks (1389-1517)

The arts in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks

Architecture and the arts in the Maghrib under the Hafsids, Marinids, and Nasrids

Architecture and the arts in Anatolia under the Beyliks and early Ottomans

Architecture and the arts in India under the Sultanates

PART II: 1500-1800: The arts in Iran under the Sufavids and Zands

Architecture in Iran under the Safavids and Zands

Architecture and the arts in Central Asia under the Uzbeks

Architecture under the Ottomans after the conquest of Constantinople

The arts under the Ottomans after the conquest of Constantinople

Architecture and the arts in Egypt and North Africa

Architecture in India under the Mughals and their contemporaries in the Deccan

The arts in India under the Mughals and their contemporaries in the Deccan

The legacies of latter Islamic art.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 8, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300233988

0300233981

OCLC:

1042076148