Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources / Eleanor Sims with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J....
Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources / Eleanor Sims with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J....
Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources / Eleanor Sims with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
Call Numbers
NQ757.0955/1
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xiii, 349 p.: ill. (some col.), map ; 33 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2002.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these...
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Full title
Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources / Eleanor Sims with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube.
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Author / Artists
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
c2002.
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Call Numbers
NQ757.0955/1
Record Identifier
74VvepQbvR2b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvepQbvR2b
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ISBN
0300090382 :
9780300090383 (hardback : alk. paper)
0300090382 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780300090383 :
DDC
757.0955
MMS ID
991016964179702626
