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A World of Beasts : a Thirteenth-century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitaab Na't Al-oHayawaan) in the Ibn Bakhtaishau' Tradition

By Contadini , Anna

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2011
ISBN
9004201009, 978-90-04-20100-2, 9789004222656, 9004222650
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
47 MB (49104856 bytes)
Series
the Kitb Nat al-ayawn
Pages
280\279
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Animals in art. Bestiaries -- Ara

Description

The Kitb Nat al-ayawn is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relationships of its illustrations, which make it a key witness to early thirteenth-century Arab painting. After a re-evaluation of previous approaches, emphasis is placed on relating image to text, on stylistic affiliations, and on the modalities of production, supported by technical analyses undertaken for the first time. In elucidating the particular context of this unique manuscript, the study contributes to our understanding of a critical period in the development of Middle Eastern painting and art

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