Yoltar-Yildirim, A: Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-674-26124-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 305 mm

Reihe: Villa I Tatti Series

Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and paintings collected by the world-renowned art historian, art critic, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865–1959). It focuses on three manuscripts and four detached folios (containing over fifty paintings) from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century produced in Iran and Central Asia (with a later addition in Mughal India). Fourteen essays are written by an international team of specialists in art history, Persian literature, statistics, conservation, and conservation science. The first two essays introduce Berenson’s collecting of these art works as an individual and as a trend among other collectors. The rest of the essays explain individual works of art. The Timurid Rasa'il and the Safavid manuscripts Shahnama of Firdawsi and Farhad va Shirin of Vahshi are examined in groups of essays ranging from art historical to literary, statistical, and codicological analysis. The detached folios studied as single essays originate from the famous Great Mongol Shahnama the 1436 Timurid Zafarnama of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi; a Turkman Shahnama and the dispersed Imperial Mughal Album also known as the Minto, Wantage, and Kevorkian albums. The appendix refers to the materials and techniques of the paintings in the volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoltar-Yildirim, Aysin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Buchgestaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Vorderasien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst

Über Autor(innen)

Yoltar-Yildirim, Aysin
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim is Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum.