Timurid Art and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timurid Art and Culture write by Lisa Golombek. This book was released on 2023-12-28. Timurid Art and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending roughly from the Euphrates to the Hindu Kush and to the Altai. Among the subjects covered were: 'Discourses of an Imaginary Arts Council in Fifteenth-Century Iran'; 'The Persian Court between Palace and Tent: From Timur to ‘Abbas I'; 'Turkmen Princes and Religious Dignitaries: A Sketch in Group Profiles'; 'Craftsmen and Guild Life in Samarkand'; 'The Baburnama and the Tarikh-i Rashidi: Their Mutual Relationship'; 'Geometric Design in Timurid/Turkmen Architectural Practice: Thoughts on a Recently Discovered Scroll and Its Late Gothic Parallels' and 'Repetition of Compositions in Manuscripts: The Khamsa of Nizami in Leningrad.
Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts
Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts write by Vera Basch Moreen. This book was released on 1985. Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In addition to the color illustrations there is a microfiche showing 84 color manuscript pages inserted in the back.
Beyond Isabella
Beyond Isabella - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Isabella write by Sheryl E. Reiss. This book was released on 2001. Beyond Isabella available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Architecture for the Shroud
Architecture for the Shroud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture for the Shroud write by John Beldon Scott. This book was released on 2003-03. Architecture for the Shroud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The famed linen cloth preserved in Turin Cathedral has provoked pious devotion, scientific scrutiny, and morbid curiosity. Imprinted with an image many faithful have traditionally believed to be that of the crucified Christ "painted in his own blood," the Shroud remains an object of intense debate and notoriety yet today. In this amply illustrated volume, John Beldon Scott traces the history of the unique relic, focusing especially on the black-marble and gilt-bronze structure Guarino Guarini designed to house and exhibit it. A key Baroque monument, the chapel comprises many unusual architectural features, which Scott identifies and explains, particulary how the chapel's unprecedented geometry and bizarre imagery convey to the viewer the supernatural powers of the object enshrined there. Drawing on early plans and documents, he demonstrates how the architect's design mirrors the Shroud's strange history as well as political aspirations of its owners, the Dukes of Savoy. Exhibiting it ritually, the Savoy prized their relic with its godly vestige as a means to link their dynasty with divine purposes. Guarini, too, promoted this end by fashioning an illusionary world and sacred space that positioned the duke visually so that he appeared close to the Shroud during its ceremonial display. Finally, Scott describes how the additional need for an outdoor stage for the public showing of the relic to the thousands who came to Turin to see it also helped shape the urban plan of the city and its transformation into the Savoyard capital. Exploring the mystique of this enigmatic relic and investigating its architectural and urban history for the first time, Architecture for the Shroud will appeal to anyone curious about the textile, its display, and the architectural settings designed to enhance its veneration and boost the political agenda of the ruling family.
Prostíbulo de la Palabra
Prostíbulo de la Palabra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostíbulo de la Palabra write by Benito Pastoriza Iyodo. This book was released on 2012-05-07. Prostíbulo de la Palabra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prostíbulo de la palabra is Benito Pastoriza Iyodo’s fourth collection of poetry. The first edition of the book is accompanied by its English translation: Brothel of the Word. This bilingual volume exposes the reader to a work diverse in themes, structure and format. The book is a collection that encapsulates the people, places, beliefs and actions implicit in the concepts presented in the operative terms “brothel” and “word” in their physical, linguistic and spiritual incarnations. The title engenders curiosity about how the poet will interconnect these two concepts. A brothel is generally associated with prostitution. But knowing that the term “prostitution” can go beyond the world associated with the sexual act, it should be no surprise that the poetic subject moves from the confines of a building (the brothel) to the environs where prostitution manifests itself in the impure and many times masked manipulation of language and mankind within a broader, more global brothel. The dialog between the poems transforms into a conversation among the reader, the poetry and the poet in the physical, linguistic, spiritual and philosophic debates that affect humanity.
