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

This source study examines prefaces to Persian albums (ca. 1491-1609) from a variety of perspectives historical, literary, and cultural to analyze the emergence, practice, and principles of art historical writing and the formation of an art tradition in Safavid Iran.

About the author

David J. Roxburgh, Ph.D. (1996) in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He has published on arts of the book and albums, mainly form Iran and Central Asia.

David J. Roxburgh, Ph.D. (1996), University of Pennsylvania, is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University. His publications include Prefacing the Image (Brill, 2001) and The Persian Album (Yale University Press, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: David J Roxburgh, David J. Roxburgh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9789004259614
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25961-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Weight: 675 g
• Series: Muqarnas, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history