Book

Sims, Eleanor.

Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources / Eleanor Sims with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.

xiii, 349 pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm

"Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depictied on them through the ages are remarkably consistent"--Jacket.

Figurative painting, Iranian.

Marshak, B. I. (Boris Ilʹich), 1933-2006.

Grube, Ernst J.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.

Historical survey: Introduction -- Pre-Islamic painting of the Iranian peoples and its sources in sculpture and the decorative arts -- The early Islamic period -- The medieval period -- The fourteenth century -- The fifteenth century -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The primary themes of Iranian imagery: Fighting and feasting -- Cult and ceremony -- Religious painting in the Islamic period -- Settings -- Figural types -- The exception to type: portraits -- The illustration of texts.

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