Category Archives: Art

Is Salvator Mundi Leonardo’s?

Posted on November 17, 2017 by

Earlier this week, a new record was set for an artist’s painting. Four-hundred million bucks plus fees for (allegedly) Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (about 1500) were offered by a (yet) unknown bidder in the Postwar and Contemporary (sic) Art … Continue reading →

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Bazm wa Razm

Posted on July 13, 2016 by

Update below I have written about the two Kharraqan towers before, see here. Both had been heavily damaged in a 2002 earthquake. They are located about one km west to the village of Hisar-i Valiasr and 33 km west to … Continue reading →

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By Compass and Straightedge

Posted on January 22, 2014 by

Update below. Readers may have noticed that I have attributed considerable recreational time on this blog to conceive and convey quasi-periodic patterns on ancient Islamic buildings. Following a first visit of Esfahan’s Darb-i Imam shrine in the old city in … Continue reading →

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Depiction of the Prophet Muhammad Under Mongolian Occupation

Posted on January 12, 2014 by

A hardly deniable cultural and, in particular, intellectual decline in the Islamic World began when, in 1258 CE, Baghdad had been sacked by the Mongolian Emperor Hülegü Khan (d. 1265), grandson of Chengis Khan. Hülegü was the brother of Möngke Khan … Continue reading →

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The World as it is Today

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

  Fin de Siècle, Pamela J. Crook 1998.   Last modified March 14, 2011.

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