Epic of the Persian kings
/ Barbara Brend and Charles Melville
Epic of the Persian kings
Edition 1
978-1-84885-656-1
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شناسنامه
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Brend, Barbara, 1940-، نویسندهTitle and Author
Epic of the Persian kings / / Barbara Brend and Charles MelvillePublication Details
لندن : : I. B. Tauris Pub، 2010مPhysical Description
xvii, 270 p.؛ ; 31 cm؛ : ill.(col.), map.Subject
Firdawsi. ShahnamahIllustrations
Exhibitions
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
Exhibitions
Added Identifiers
Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951-، نویسنده .
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عنوان روی جلد: Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.
انگليسي.
"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."--T.p. verso.
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.
Glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (p.258-265) and index.
انگليسي.
"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."--T.p. verso.
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.
Glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (p.258-265) and index.
