About this title: This groundbreaking work elucidates the symbolism and an entire allegorical system in Islamic painting of the Golden Age between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Barry, a leading expert on art of the Middle East, focuses his study around the work of Bizhad, the undisputed master of the Persian miniature and an almost mythical personality. ...
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Description: Reader copy. Publishers Overstock. Lacking a dust jacket, but otherwise a Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. read more
Edition: First English-language Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Éditions Flammarion, Paris
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9782080304216ISBN:2080304216
Description: Fine Condition/As New in Fine Condition jacket. 407 pp., over three hundred illus. in color. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: FLAMMARION
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9782080304216ISBN:2080304216
Description: New. In terms of elucidating inner meaning and symbolism, the study of medieval Islamic art has lagged almost a full century behind that of medieval Western art. This groundbreaking work suggests how it might at last prove possible to crack the allegorica... read more
Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Flammarion, [Paris]
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9782080304216ISBN:2080304216
Description: Fine condition in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Stuart Carry Welch. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color. Bound in the publisher's original blue boards with the front cover and spine stamped in blind. read more
Description: Good. 2080304216 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Flammarion, Paris, France
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9782080304216ISBN:2080304216
Description: New- in New- jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 408 pages-in English-over 300 color illustrations, mostly plates-maps-a multi-prize-winning author and authority on Islamic and Oriental art and culture describes the golden age of Islamic medieval painting between the 14th and 17th Centuries, spotlighting the work of Bihzad (1465-1535), the master of miniature painting from Herat, Afghanistan-intro. by curator and Harvard professor Stuart Cary Welch, one of the world's foremost specialists on ... read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Flammarion, Paris
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9782080304216ISBN:2080304216
Description: Near Fine. In a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Oversize. Well illustrated in color. Foreword by Stuart Cary Welch. No markings. 408 pages. read more
Description: PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. In terms of elucidating inner meaning and symbolism, the study of medieval Islamic art has lagged almost a full century behind that of medieval Western art. This groundbreaking work suggests how it might at last prove possible to crack the allegorical code of medieval Islamic painting during its Golden Age between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Barry ... read more
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