This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to…
"This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches t…
Mīr Sayyid Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī al-Mashhadī (d. 986/1578–9) is known chiefly as a calligrapher but also composed poetry and an album preface (dībācha) . All of the written sources identify his teacher as the tenth/sixteenth-century master Mīr ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī Harawī. Details about hi…
Mīr ʿAlī Tabrīzī (fl. late eighth/fourteenth–early ninth/fifteenth centuries) was credited with the “invention” (waḍʿ) of the nastaʿlīq script by calligraphers of the Tīmūrid and Ṣafavid periods following the Arabic tradition of the “firsts” (awāʾil) , in which individuals were …
Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays refle…