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Category Archives: Art
Grace and Humility
I am grateful that the French/German channel ARTE provides footage of the concert of Brian and Roger Eno at the Acropolis in Athens of August 4. The circumstances, in times of Covid, the most terrifying heat wave in Athens since … Continue reading
Is Salvator Mundi Leonardo’s?
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
Bazm wa Razm
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
Posted in Art, Iran, Uncategorized
Tagged Great Seljuq, Islamic art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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By Compass and Straightedge
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
Depiction of the Prophet Muhammad Under Mongolian Occupation
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
Posted in Art, Iran
Tagged Al Mustas'im, al-Biruni, Baghdad, Bilderverbot, Chengis Khan, Ghazan, Hülegü, Ilkhanid, Islamic Chinoiserie, Möngke, Mongolian Empire, Oljeitu, Prophet Muhammad, Rashid al-Din, Yuka Kadoi
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