Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Eighty-two watercolors and drawings selected from the extensive Searight Collection in London present a variety of 19th-century artists' encounters with the diverse cultures and dramatic lands of the fabled Ottoman Empire. Complementing the artworks are essays by experts in Middle Eastern studies elucidating the exchange of ideas and influences between East and West. 9x11.5" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Arts & Photography

Newton, Charles

Searight, Sarah

Atıl, Esin

Victoria And Albert Museum

Other Media

Smithsonian Inst Traveling Service

271 pp. with many color illustrations throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Suleymanname: The Illustrated History of Suleyman the Magnificent

History & Criticism

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Examines the textiles, ceramics, furniture, illustrated books, and other decorative art of the 16th century Turkish empire

The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

Book by Atil, Esin, Newton, Charles, Searight, Sarah

Sites

Renaissance Of Islam: Art Of The Mamluks by Esin Atil. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. 288 pages. Softcover, Wraps. B&W, Color Illustrations Throughout. Moderate wear to binding, covers, pages

Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks.

Washington (Smithsonian Institution Press)

Collection of fables from 14th-Century Arabic Manuscripts.

Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript

Literature & Fiction

Smithsonian Institution Press

In a collection of fables attributed to the third-century Brahman philosopher, Bidpai, and first devised to instruct royalty in proper conduct, animals demonstrate a variety of human qualities including friendship, loyalty, vanity, and treachery

Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript (English and Arabic Edition)

World Literature

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

A volume which accompanied exhibitions featuring the arts which flourished during the 46-year reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century. Pieces featured include album paintings, calligraphy, book-bindings, illuminated manuscripts, jade, silver and gold objects.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Washington (National Gallery of Art)

Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran and India

Drawing

Freed-Hardeman College

Levni's pictorial narrative of the Surname-i Vehbi, poet Vehbi's account of a festival organised in 1720 to commemorate the circumcision of four sons of Sultan Ahmed III, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of Ottoman art and possibly the last great example of illustrated Islamic manuscript. Preserved in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, the work is illustrated with 137 paintings that recreate the personages, settings, and events of an extraordinarily lively and enchanting age known as the Tulip Period. Printed in colour with gold and silver, "Levni and the Surname" is a sumptuous facsimile edition that reproduces each illustration in the format of the original manuscript: an Islamic codex which reads from back to front, or right to left. The book also introduces the historical and cultural setting of the age, analyses the tradition of festivals and festival books within the Ottoman world, discusses the artist's methodology in representing the festival of 1720, and concludes with a listing of the historic groups and individuals participating in the event. Esin Atil has recently retired as curator of Islamic art at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, and is the author of more than 20 books.

Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival

Univ of Washington Pr

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Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Suleymanname: The Illustrated History of Suleyman the Magnificent

The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks.

Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript

Kalila Wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript (English and Arabic Edition)

The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran and India

Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival