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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, and literary dimensions; and their art historical formation and content. It ends with an interpretation of calligrapher Dust Muhammad's preface and his conceptualization of a history and aesthetics of depiction. The book is the first to study the prefaces collectively and in relationship to other cultural practices. It also draws on a wide variety of additional primary sources. It includes forty illustrations and several tables.

Art criticism --- Art, Safavid --- Islamic art --- History --- Historiography

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Vieille de quatre millénaires, la culture iranienne a été admirée et copiée à travers le monde islamique, de l'Inde monghol à l'Empire ottoman. L'époque safavide (1501-1736) marque un véritable âge d'or où s'épanouissent l'art et la littérature, et où le pays s'ouvre aux influences étrangères, notamment européennes. Conçu comme une véritable anthologie d'œuvres remarquables, l'ouvrage dévoile un art profondément conceptuel où le lien intime qui lie le verbe aux arts visuels est la clé d'un imaginaire où la peinture est une métaphore littéraire, tout comme le passé est la métaphore du présent. Un fabuleux voyage à travers la découverte du présent.

Exhibitions --- Art, Iranian --- Art, Safavid --- Safavid art --- Art séfévide --- Manuscrits à peintures persanes --- Vaisselle --- Iran

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Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan centre of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents - from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat - who anthologised their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan.

Art, Safavid --- Manuscripts, Persian --- Anthologies --- History --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Iran --- Social life and customs --- Adab. --- Anthology. --- Friendship. --- Gender. --- Isfahan. --- Persianate. --- Safavid. --- Sexuality. --- Sufism. --- Urbanity.

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Calligraphie perse --- Calligraphy [Persian ] --- Kalligrafie [Perzische ] --- Albums --- Art, Safavid --- Art, Timurid --- Book design --- Calligraphy, Persian --- Islamic art --- Persian calligraphy --- Design, Book --- Books --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Timurid art --- Safavid art --- Blank-books --- Format --- Iran --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Kings and rulers --- Art collections. --- Art [Timurid ] --- Art [Islamic ] --- Art collections --- Art [Safavid ]

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Affect, Emotion and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires presents new approaches to Ottoman Safavid and Mughal art and culture. Taking artistic agency as a starting point, the authors consider the rise in status of architects, the self-fashioning of artists, the development of public spaces, as well as new literary genres that focus on the individual subject and his or her place in the world. They consider the issue of affect as performative and responsive to certain emotions and actions, thus allowing insights into the motivations behind the making and, in some cases, the destruction of works of art. The interconnected histories of Iran,Turkey and India thus highlight the urban and intellectual changes that defined the early modern period. Contributors are: Sussan Babaie, Chanchal Dadlani, Jamal Elias, Emine Fetvaci, Christiane Gruber, Sylvia Hougteling, Kishwar Rizvi, Sunil Sharma, and Marianna Shreve Simpson.

Emotions in art. --- Art, Ottoman. --- Art, Mogul Empire. --- Art, Safavid. --- Architecture, Mogul Empire. --- Art, Moghul Empire --- Art, Mogul --- Art, Mughal Empire --- Art, Mughul Empire --- Moghul Empire art --- Mogul Empire art --- Mughal Empire art --- Mughul Empire art --- Ottoman art --- Safavid art --- Architecture, Indo-Muslim --- Architecture, Moghul Empire --- Architecture, Mogul --- Architecture, Mughal Empire --- Architecture, Mughul Empire --- Indo-Muslim architecture --- Moghul Empire architecture --- Mogul Empire architecture --- Mughal Empire architecture --- Mughul Empire architecture --- Turkey --- India --- Iran --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- Art, Mughal Empire. --- Architecture, Mughal Empire.