Books in Isfahan
Edit ThisBook Arts of Isfahan
Edit ThisBook Arts of Isfahan explores the vibrant artistic legacy of the capital city of the Safavid Empire in seventeenth-century Persia.
Book Arts of Isfahan examines Armenian manuscript illuminations that reflect medieval traditions, European woodcuts imported to the city, Jewish illustrations in a conservative Persian style, and paintings in the seventeenth-century court style. Author Alice Taylor focuses on the ways in which the groups who lived in Isfahan used images to articulate their differences, and, in the process, to forge a stronger sense of their own identities. more..
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