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Title: Persian Painting: Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century by Stuart Cary Welch ISBN: 0-8076-0813-0 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 May, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exquisite images from a civilization ignored by the West
Comment: Mention the words "Safavi" or "Safavid" to people in the West and you will most likely get a blank stare in return, but this Iranian dynasty presided over a great cultural flowering in literature and architecture as well as in art. Stuart Cary Welch produced a beautiful introductory guide to some of the beauties of that era, taking illustrations from several famous books and collections of the 16th century height of Safavid glory. While the political history of the time in Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan (all parts of the Persian world in a cultural sense) was full of battles, massacres, sieges and sudden changes of rule-very much like Europe at the same time-the delicacy of Persian art knew no bounds. Brilliant, jewel-like colors, striking designs, and bold displays of mythical heroes touched in gold and surrounded with the miniature figures of the Persian court world appear on the pages of this book that is guaranteed to satisfy. Chinese-style rocks and trees mingle with Islamic calligraphy and Persian legends. While this book reproduces the illustrations both in full and in detail, the text is only the slightest of introductions to what can be a consuming study for any lover of art at its greatest. Buyers of this book will want to look further. May I suggest Anthony Welch's two books "Artists for the Shah" and "Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan", "Persian Drawings" by B. W. Robinson, and "Persian Painting" by Basil Gray. Another related volume, a treat for anyone interested in Persian art, would be "Isfahan: Pearl of Persia" by Wilfred Blunt and W. Swan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, accessible introduction to an exquisite artform
Comment: Stuart Cary Welch is an art historian (I think he taught at Harvard, but I'm not sure) who loves his work, and it clearly shows in this volume. The pictures are exquisite, the reproductions are beautiful, but the best part is the commentary: his only goal is to make the work -- and the stories the pictures tell, for they are all essentially book illustrations -- as much a pleasure to the audience as it was to him. He could not wear his learning more lightly nor with more enthusism, and yet it is clear he must know everything there is to know about this culture. Right after you get this, you'll immediately go right back to Amazon to get a copy of the Shah-Nama, the marvelous epic Iranian poem that so many of the splendid miniatures in this volume illustrate.
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Title: Mostly Miniatures : An Introduction to Persian Painting by Oleg Grabar ISBN: 0691049998 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources by Eleanor Sims, Boris, I. Marshak, Ernst J. Grube, B. I. Marshak ISBN: 0300090382 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Painting for the Mughal Emperor : The Art of the Book 1560-1660 by Susan Stronge ISBN: 0810965968 Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Hunt for Paradise : Court Arts of Safavid Iran by James Allan, Sheila Canby ISBN: 8884915902 Publisher: Skira Pub. Date: 03 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia by Frances Wood ISBN: 0520237862 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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