Arts of the city victorious : Islamic art and architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt / Jonathan M. Bloom.

Author
Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Haven : Yale University Press : In association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xv, 236 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm

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"Arts of the City Victorious is the first book-length study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids, the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171. The Fatimids are most famous for founding the city of al-Qahira (whence the name Cairo) in 969, and their art - particularly textiles and lustre ceramics, but also metalwork and carved rock crystal, ivory and woodwork - has been admired for nearly a millennium. Initially brought home to Europe by merchants and Crusaders and then preserved as relics and reliquaries in church treasuries." "Fatimid art and architecture has always been somewhat anomalous in the history of islamic art because of the direction it grew (west to east), subject matter (figural at a time when geometry and the arabesque were developing elsewhere), and unusually rich and precise documentation in royal and popular accounts. Whereas earlier studies treated the two and a half centuries of Fatimid art and architecture as a single category, this book is the first to show how they grew and evolved over time."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-229) and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Robert Hillenbrand
  • I. An Introduction to Fatimid History and Fatimid Art
  • II. Fatimid Art in North Africa
  • III. Architecture in Egypt from 969 to the 1060s
  • IV. The Decorative Arts from 969 to the 1060s
  • V. Architecture from the 1060s to 1171
  • VI. The Decorative Arts from the 1060s to 1171
  • VII. The Legacies of Fatimid Art
  • App. The Fatimid Caliphs.
ISBN
  • 9780300135428 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 0300135424 (cl : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007032122
OCLC
165081886
Other standard number
  • 40015106521
RCP
C - S
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