Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries – PDF

The work goals at bringing the Persian texts into the research of the humanities and know-how of the Indo-Iranian world – an method a lot uncared for thus far. Drawing upon Persian sources (each from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historic chronicles, and poetical texts, the work offers with portray and the artwork of bookmaking through the twelfth to the nineteenth century. The introduction presents the geographical and chronological dimensions of the research. After a short historical past of Persian portray earlier than the twelfth century, the e book discusses mural portray, manuscripts, origin of paper and its fabrication, the composition of the web page, colors/pigments used within the work, portray topics, bookbinding, and so forth. The painter, man, and artist, his origin, his coaching, his standing, aesthetics and style, his workshop and its organisation and distribution of duties therein, modular building of the manuscripts, library, the caligraphy surrounding the portray, its illuminations, and binding are all analysed. In truth, the ebook reconstructs your entire course of of creating an illustrated manuscript from its groundwork to its binding. Persian textual content and illustrations improve the utility of the work. 978-0367534943, 978-1003082217, 978-1000164701, 978-0367514853 NOTE: This product only consists of the Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12-19th Centuries eBook in PDF. No access codes are included.