Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-06T07:51:41.078Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Art of the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Sheila Canby
Sheila Canby*
Affiliation:
Department of Oriental Antiquities, The British Museum
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Approximately Sixty Entries in Volumes I-VI of Encyclopaedia Iranica deal with painting and calligraphy in Islamic Iran. While Priscilla Soucek has contributed many of these, other authors include Dorothea Duda, B.W. Robinson, Barbara Schmitz, M. Dabirsiaqi, A.S. Shahbazi and Thomas Lentz. Anthony Welch, Jennifer Scarce, G. A. Pugachenkova, Soucek, and Robinson have also written general entries on art in Iran in the Islamic period. Rather than treat each entry individually, this review will assess the contribution of each author, characterizing his or her approach and noting some but not all of the entries on painters and calligraphers and their work. Additionally, this review will consider James Allan's article on ARMOR, May Beattie's on the ARDABIL CARPET, Dorothy Thompson's on silk (ABRĪŠAM), and 34 articles on CARPETS and CLOTHING.

Taken as a whole, the 34 entries by Priscilla Soucek validate her reputation as an extremely rigorous scholar of Iranian painting and calligraphy. Professor Soucek's entries raise our hopes that she will eventually publish the definitive book on these fields.

Type
Articles
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3-4: A Review of the “Encyclopaedia Iranica” , Summer Fall 1998 , pp. 361 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Adle, C. “Autopsia, In Absentia: Sur la Date de l'Introduction et de la Constitution de l'Album de Bahram Mirza par Dust-Mohammad en 951/1544,” Studia Iranica 19 (1990): 243-48CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Skelton, Robert “Iranian Artists in the Service of Humayun,” in Canby, S. ed., Humayun's Garden Party (Bombay, 1994), 40-44.Google Scholar

2. Rawson, Jessica Tite, M. and Hughes, M.J. “The Export of Tang Sancai Wares: Some Recent Research,” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 52 (1987-88): 39-61, especially p. 58.Google Scholar

3. Blair, Sheila S. Bloom, Jonathan M. and Wardwell, Anne E. “Reevaluating the Date of the ‘Buyid’ Silks,” Ars Orientalis 22 (1993): 1-42.Google Scholar This article includes the findings of Dr. Norman Indictor on carbon-14 tests on the Buyid silks.