Name: Baghdad Quran — Illuminated Cover | Islamic Manuscript Art Print
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SKU: 15943357141
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Baghdad Quran — Illuminated Cover | Islamic Manuscript Art Print

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Baghdad Quran — Illuminated Cover | Islamic Manuscript Art PrintThe tradition of illuminated manuscript art in the Islamic and Persian world spanning the Abbasid, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman periods produced some of the most opulent and technically accomplished book objects in human history. Illuminated frontispieces, carpet pages, and decorated headings combined gold, lapis lazuli, vermilion, and malachite with a geometric and floral ornamental vocabulary of extraordinary intricacy.

Transcriptions of Du Fu's poems in Chinese calligraphy are among the most prized objects in East Asian brushwork tradition

at any hour

A rare intersection of early Kandinsky and the history of graphic design

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French Symbolist painter and printmaker whose dreamlike imagery occupied a world of its own — neither Impressionist nor academic

expel the barbarians)

The Orientalist tradition produced some of the most visually immersive paintings of the 19th century — works of musicians

Deeply influenced by his friendship with Van Doesburg

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was the foremost French Orientalist painter — a technical virtuoso whose travels to Egypt

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was the most celebrated painter of the late Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the leading decorative artist of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement

and poet — one of the founding figures of the Nanga (literati painting) tradition in Japan

and white in a composition of aristocratic elegance

producing images of quiet lyrical power that influenced Japanese visual culture for centuries

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