The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800Yale University Press, 1996 M09 25 - 368 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Arts in Iran and Central Asia under the Ilkhanids and their | 21 |
Architecture in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids and their | 37 |
The Arts in Iran and Central Asia under the Timurids and their | 55 |
Architecture in Egypt under the Bahri Mamluks 12601389 | 70 |
Architecture in Egypt Syria and Arabia under the Circassian Mamluks | 85 |
The Arts in Egypt and Syria under the Mamluks | 97 |
Architecture and the Arts in the Maghrib under the Hafsids Marinids | 114 |
Architecture in Iran under the Safavids and Zands | 183 |
Architecture and the Arts in Central Asia under the Uzbeks | 199 |
Architecture under the Ottomans after the Conquest of Constantinople | 213 |
The Arts under the Ottomans after the Conquest of Constantinople | 231 |
Architecture and the Arts in Egypt and North Africa | 251 |
Architecture in India under the Mughals and their Contemporaries in | 7 |
The Arts in India under the Mughals and their Contemporaries in | 19 |
Notes 315 | 3 |
Architecture and the Arts in Anatolia under the Beyliks and Early | 132 |
Architecture and the Arts in India under the Sultanates | 149 |
12 | 165 |
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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 Sheila Blair,Sheila S. Blair,Jonathan M. Bloom No preview available - 1995 |