Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 191 pp. with 80 reproductions in full color.

Persian Painting (Treasures of Asia)

Gray, Basil

Skira

Second impression. An introduction and short history of Persian painting, including illustrations in books. Discusses the important schools and phases, European influences on Persian art and vice versa. With fifteen plates. Dust jacket chipped, torn. 92 pages. 1930 , square 8vo., cloth, dust jacket.. Limited.

Pan/Macmillan

Persian Miniature Painting

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Binyon, Laurence

Wilkinson, J.

Dover `

Sung Period in the late Thirteenth Century A.D.

Sung Porcelain and Stoneware (Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Faber&Faber

Includes 80 reproductions in full-color. Running parallel to the evolution of Christian art in the West, the art of book illumination in Iran took its rise under the Sassanians in the 4th century of our era and developed uninterruptedly under the 15th. Book illumination ranked second only to architecture, while wall painting, metalwork, ceramics and textiles fulfilled a decorative function. Easel painting was unknown in the East and sculpture was confined to ornamentation. Under these circumstances miniature painting and calligraphy emerged as one of the most characteristic art forms of as one of the most characteristic art forms of Islamic Persia, where they played a more important role than they did in the West. After an introductory survey of the earliest surviving vestiges of Persian painting, Basil Gray discusses and illustrates the paradoxical fact that the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, while devastating the leading centers of Persian civilization, opened the country to artistic influences from Central Asia and China which stimulated the rise of a new art. Thereafter the arts of the book steadily evolved towards the perfection attained in the 15th century. Asiatic in conception, European in its sense of form and color. Essentially an art of manuscript illumination, Persian painting is seldom to be seen in the original; the leading works are widely scattered in museums and libraries all over the world, and only in the 20trh century has it begun to arouse the interest its unique qualities deserve. In the past 20 years or so the field of art-historical research has been greatly broadened; yet this book is the first general study illustrated in full color to be made of Persian Painting, of masterpieces whose exquisite design and imaginative coloring give them a place apart in Oriental art.

Persian Painting

Rizzoli

This second volume of Basil Gray's studies covers his work on Chinese ceramics and on Islamic art. Appropriately, Chinese ceramics proved the most potent medium in introducing Islamic artists to the motifs of Chinese painting, in view of their wide popularity in the Middle East. The articles on Islamic art were written over a period of forty years. Early studies on Persian manuscript painting of the Mongol period are followed by papers on Turkish and Indian manuscript illumination, and general studies on Chinese influence in Persian painting, and on textiles and glass. Contents: Preface The Influence of Near Eastern Metalwork on Chinese Ceramics Persian Influence on Chinese Art from the 8th to the 15th Centuries Blue and White Vessels in Persian Miniatures of the 14th and 15th Centuries Re-examined Chinese Porcelain of the Fourteenth Century: I. Blue and White. II. With Copper-red Decoration or Celadon Glaze. III. Ch'ang-pai The Export of Chinese Porcelain to India The Export of Chinese Porcelain to the Islamic World Chinese Porcelain of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century and the John Addis Gift Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark The Sedgwick Bequest: Pottery and Porcelain Liao Pottery An Islamic Charm from Fostat A Fatimid Drawing Die 'Kalila wa Dimna' der Universität Istanbul Fourteenth-century illustrations of the Kalilah wa Dimnah An Unknown Fragment of the Jami' al-Tawarikh in the Asiatic Society of Bengal: An Album of Designs for Persian Textiles Some Chinoiserie Drawings and their origin Chinese Influence in Persian Painting, 14th and 15th Centuries Two Portraits of Mehmet II Portraits of Mehmet II, Fatih Deccani Painting of the School of Bijapur Western Indian Painting in the Sixteenth Century: The origin of the Rajput School The Laur Chanda Manuscript after 30 Years The Man in the Panther Skin Gold-painted Glass under the Seljuks Thoughts on the origin of Hedwig Glasses: The Essence of Islamic Art Additional Notes Index.

Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art, Volume II: Chinese Ceramics and Islamic Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Pindar Press

Basil Gray's publications on Chinese and Islamic art have done much to introduce these subjects to a European public. This first volume deals with Chinese painting and luxury art. An introductory section on Chinese art attempts to chart the aesthetic and philosophical ideas that lie at the roots of Chinese culture, and which have succeeded in dictating the development of this highly individual civilization. A second section, on Chinese painting, examines the early development of Chinese scroll painting and its subsequent influence on Japanese and European artists. The influence of Chinese painting on the earliest Western visitors to the court at Peking and on subsequent European collectors is of particular interest. The third section deals with lacquer and metalwork, and includes a number of studies which attempt to answer problems of attribution and influence. The volume concludes with two reports on the museums of modern China and Japan. Contents: Preface Chinese Art Chinese Art as an Expression of Chinese Ideals of Life The Development of Taste in Chinese Art in the West Treasures of Chinese Art: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the People's Republic of China Sloane and the Kaempfer Collection Lord Burlington and Father Ripa's Engravings The Arts of the Ming Dynasty: Painting, Calligraphy and Printing A Great Taoist Painting A Medieval Japanese Painting of the Twelfth Century Chinese Colour Prints from the Ten Bamboo Studio (review) Castiglione, a Jesuit Priest at the Court of the Chinese Emperors (review) The British Museum 'Admonitions Scroll' Attributed to Ku K'ai-chih Admonitions of the Instructress of the Ladies in the Palace: a Painting attributed to Ku K'ai-chih The Eumorfopoulos Lacquer Toilet-box China or D'ong-son A Bronze Lien from Shih-chia-shan The Inlaid Metalwork of Korea Korean Inlaid Lacquer of the Thirteenth Century Museums of China Some New Museums of Japan Additional Notes Index.

Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art, Volume I: Chinese Art

Religion & Spirituality

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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