Ars Orientalis: The Arts of Islam and the East (Volume 5). Archibald Gibson Wenley Memorial Volume; (Smithsonian Publication 4540)
Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art; Smithsonian Institution; University of Michigan, Dept. of the History of Art, 1963. Hardbound. Bound in gray cloth with brown titles. vii, 354 pp. Many black and white illustrations, including some fold-outs. Good+, ex-library copies with minimal markings, some numbering on peripheral pages, o.w. pages quite clean, tight volume. Cover slightly soiled, spine toned with ends soft & modestly frayed. Item #133822
Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian and The Fine Arts Dept. of the University of Michigan. Contains scholarly articles, excavation reports, bibliographies, book reviews and many illustrations. Texts are in various languages and most articles are illustrated. This journal is an annual volume of scholarly articles and book reviews on the art and archaeology of Asia, including the ancient Near East and the Islamic world. It fosters a broad range of themes and approaches, targeting scholars in diverse fields. This issue is the Archibald Gibson Wenley Memorial Volume, and it includes these articles: Archibald G. Wenley, An Appreciation / John A. Pope -- Achaemenid and Sassanian Cut Glass / Axel Von Saldern -- The Umayyad Palace at 'Anjar / Maurice Chehab -- Recherches sur la Mosquee al-Aqsa et ses Mosaiques / Henri Sten -- Tulunidische Lusterfayence / Rudolph Schnyder -- Some Thoughts on the Problems of Early Oriental Carpets / Agnes Geijer -- Three Miniatures from Fustat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York / Ernst J. Grube -- A Newly Discovered Illustrated Manuscript of the Maqamat of Hariri / Oleg Grabar -- Les Bois de l'Ancien Cenotaphe de Khalid ibn al-Walid a Hims / Abu-L-lFaradj Al-'Ush -- Two Miniatures from the Collections of Topkapi / Emel Esin -- Some Miniatures of the Jami-al-Tavarikh in Istanbul, Topkapi Museum, Hazine Library No. 1654 / Guner Inal -- 'Ishrat-Khaneh and Ak-Saray, Two Timurid Mausoleums in Samarkand / G. A. Pugachenkova -- Neue Arbeiten zur Turkischen Keramik / Kurt Erdmann -- Mughal and Deccani Miniature Paintings from a Private Collection / Stuart C. Welch -- Indo-Islamic Figural Sculpture / Hermann Goetz -- A Study on Hsu Wei / Yu-Ho Tseng -- Ch'en Hsien, Painter of Lohans / Aschwin Lippe -- Yuan Chiang and His School / James Cahill -- The Masanobu Tradition of Courtesans of the Three Cities / Robert T. Paine.
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