Ebook: The lost treasure : Persian art
- Tags: Art Iranian., Art -- Iran -- History., ART -- History -- General., Art., Iran.
- Series: Temporis
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Parkstone Press International
- City: New York, Iran
- Language: English
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Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with otherinstitutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and therepublics of the former Soviet Union are some of the mostmagnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, manyof these works have been lost, but have been cataloguedand published here for the first time with an unsurpassedselection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Lukonin, Director of Read more...
Abstract: Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with otherinstitutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and therepublics of the former Soviet Union are some of the mostmagnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, manyof these works have been lost, but have been cataloguedand published here for the first time with an unsurpassedselection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Lukonin, Director of the Oriental Art section of the HermitageMuseum, and his colleague Anatoli Ivanov have broadlydocumented the major developments of Persian Art: from thefirst signs of civilisation on