Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
London/ New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket; xvii, 270 pp; profusely illustrated in color. VG/VG. Item #180179
ISBN: 9781848853324
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Epic of the Persian Kings: the Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh', held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 September 2010 to 9 January 2011, in celebration of the millennium of the completion of Ferdowsi's work."--Title page verso. Contents include: The Shahnameh in Persian culture -- The Shahnameh in historical context / Charles Melville -- The Shahnameh in Persian literary history / Firuza Abdullaeva -- The Shahnameh as world literature / Dick Davis -- The tradition of illustration / Barbara Brend -- The Shahnameh in art / Barbara Brend -- The shape of the Shahnameh -- An explosion of images: the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries -- Princely patronage and beyond: the fifteenth century -- Old and new ways of seeing: the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries -- The Shahnameh in India: the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries -- Characters and creatures in the Shahnameh -- Illustrated Shahnameh manuscripts and single folios in British collections.
OCLC: 664322581
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