An Armenian Bishop (recto), Calligraphy (verson, c. 1453-1519), Page from an Album

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An Armenian Bishop (recto), Calligraphy (verson, c. 1453-1519), Page from an Album

Iran, Isfahan, circa 1650
Manuscripts; folios
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Frame: 20 × 15 × 1 1/2 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 3.81 cm)
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky (M.73.5.456)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed.  Islamic Art:  The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 1973.
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.

  • Taylor, Alice. Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995.
  • Beyond boundaries : Islamic art across cultures. [Doha, Qatar : Museum of Islamic Art, 2008]
  • Evans, Helen C., ed. Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
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