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Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: David G. Alexander

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

ISBN: 9781588395702

Category: Social Science

Page: 348

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Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian military equipment into courtly works of art. This book reveals the diversity and artistic quality of one of the most important and encyclopedic collections of its kind in the West. The Metropolitan Museum's holdings span ten centuries and include representative pieces from almost every Islamic culture from Spain to the Caucasus. The collection includes rare early works, among them the oldest documented Islamic sword, and is rich in helmets and body armor, decorated with calligraphy and arabesques, that were worn in Iran and Anatolia in the late fifteenth century. Other masterpieces include a jeweled short sword (yatagan) with a blade of "watered" steel that comes from the court of Süleyman the Magnificent, a seventeenth-century gold-inlaid armor associated with Shah Jahan, and two gold-inlaid flintlock firearms belonging to the guard of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Presenting 126 objects, each handsomely photographed and richly documented with a detailed description and discussion of its technical, historical, and artistic importance, this overview of the Met's holdings is supplemented by an introductory essay on the formation of the collection, and appendixes on iconography and on Turkman-style armor.
Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language: en
Pages: 348

Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Authors: David G. Alexander
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-31 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian
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Language: en
Pages: 252

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Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vol. set)

Authors: Susan Sinclair
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-03 - Publisher: BRILL

Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish)
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Language: en
Pages: 592

Serçe Limani

Authors: George F. Bass, Sheila Matthews, J. Richard Steffy, Frederick H. van Doorninck
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-16 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of

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