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Paperback Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran Book
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ISBN: 9004259619

ISBN13: 9789004259614

Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran

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This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers.
Approaches to the study of these sources are examined, followed by an analysis of the sociohistorical court-centered context; the circumstances of the texts' composition, reception,...

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