Qusayr Amra

Author : Garth Fowden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929608
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qusayr 'Amra written by Garth Fowden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.

Author : Andrea Deplazes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764371900
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Architecture written by Andrea Deplazes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition: the trailblazing introduction and textbook on construction includes a new section on translucent materials and an article on the use of glass.

Author : Erica Dodd
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888441393
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frescoes of Mar Musa Al-Habashi written by Erica Dodd and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Museum With No Frontiers
Publisher : AIRP
ISBN 13 : 9781874044352
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Umayyads written by Museum With No Frontiers and published by AIRP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new series will present 12 Exhibition Trails in 11 countries, which follow the chronology of the spread of Islamic art in that area. The Museum With No Frontiers programme is based on the novel idea of organising exhibitions without transporting the works of art, instead allowing the visitor to discover the artefacts, architecture and museums in their original environment and within their historical and cultural context. This concept makes it possible for the Islamic art academic or enthusiast to experience art as a living illustration of social history. Each Exhibition Trail is divided into a number of itineraries that provide detailed information on the history and significance of each structure or work and offer practical information on guided tours, transportation and cultural activities. The beautifully illustrated descriptions of the archaeological sites, artworks and architecture are written by experts in the field who live in the specified area itself. Visit the virtual gallery www.mwnf.org for further information. The exhibition is devoted to significant monuments from the reign of the Umayyad caliphs (660-750 AD) in an area that stretched from Amman to Mo

Author : Irfan Shahîd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884023470
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century written by Irfan Shahîd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth installment of Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume's discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. First, Irfan Shahîd focuses on the economy of the Ghassanids and presents information on various trade routes and fairs. Second, the author reconstructs Ghassanid daily life by discussing topics as varied as music, food, medicine, the role of women, and horse racing. Shahîd concludes the volume with an examination of cultural life, including descriptions of urbanization, Arabic script, chivalry, and poetry. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the period of the Umayyad caliphate.

Author : Richard Ettinghausen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300088694
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 written by Richard Ettinghausen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar’s original text, this book has been completely rewritten and updated to take into account recent information and methodological advances. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment. The book approaches the arts with new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book. With many new illustrations, often in color, this volume broadens the picture of Islamic artistic production and discusses objects in a wide range of media, including textiles, ceramics, metal, and wood. The book incorporates extensive accounts of the cultural contexts of the arts and defines the originality of each period. A final chapter explores the impact of Islamic art on the creativity of non-Muslims within the Islamic realm and in areas surrounding the Muslim world.

Author : Finbarr Barry Flood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116382
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Mosque of Damascus written by Finbarr Barry Flood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and well-illustrated study of the history, architecture and symbolism of the early 8th-century mosque. The heavily annotated text includes analyses of the mosque's mosaic, interior decoration, clock and colonnade and broader discussions of the ambiguous meaning of the mosque's decorations, the topography of early medieval cities and the visual culture of Muslim architecture.

Author : Hugh N. Kennedy
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754659099
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East written by Hugh N. Kennedy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Emp

Author : Stefano Anastasio
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803274565
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan in the Archibald Creswell Photograph Collection of the Biblioteca Berenson written by Stefano Anastasio and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (1879-1974) developed an early interest in Islamic architecture, considering photography as an essential tool for recording architectural artefacts. This volume presents the photographs that concern Mesopotamia, Syria and Jordan, kept today at the Biblioteca Berenson in Florence.

Author : wijdan ali
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774244766
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book the arab contribution to islamic art: from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries written by wijdan ali and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appraises the early periods of Islamic art within its own cultural framework and according to Islamic esthetics