Week 6: Early Islamic Art

Kaaba

Mecca, Arabia

Title: Pen Box, from Persia (Iran)

Artist: Shazi

Date: 1210-1211

Museum/ Source: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.

Medium: Brass inlaid with silver, copper, and black organic material

Size: height 2", length 12 5/8", width 2 1/2" ( 5 X 31.4 X 6.4 cm)

Title: Page from the Koran (surah II: 286 and title surah III) in kufic script, from

Syria or Iraq

Artist: n/a

Date: 9th century

Museum/ Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Medium: Ink, pigments, and gold on vellum

Size: 8 5/16" X 11 1/2" (21.1 X 29.2cm)

Title: Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel

Artist: n/a

Date: Begun 692

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Title: Interior, Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, Israel

Artist: n/a

Date: n/a

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Title: The Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia

Artist: n/a

Date: 836-875

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Title: Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain

Artist: n/a

Date: 785-786

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Title: Dome in front of the mihrab, Great Mosque

Artist: n/a

Date: n/a

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Mihrab

Great Mosque

Cordoba, Spain

Title: Court of the Lions, Palace of the Lions (Palacio de los Leones), Granada, Spain

Artist: n/a

Date: Begun c. 1380

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Islamic tile wall panel

Alhambra

Title: Courtyard, Masjid-I Jami (Great Mosque). View from the northeast

Artist: n/a

Date: 11th-18th century

Museum/ Source: Isfahan,Persia (Iran)

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Title: Tile mosaic mihrab, from the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan, Persia (Iran)

Artist: n/a

Date: c.1354

Museum/ Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Medium: Glazed and cut ceramic

Size: 11'3" X 7'6" (3.43 X 2.29 cm)

Title: Bottle, from Syria

Artist: n/a

Date: Mid- 14th century

Museum/ Source: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.

Medium: Blown glass with enamels and gilding

Size: 19 1/26" X 9 3/4" (49.7 X 24.8 cm)

Title: Illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleiman I, from Istanbul, Turkey

Artist: n/a

Date: c.1555

Museum/ Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Medium: Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Size: removed from firman (official document) and trimmed to 20 1/2" X

25 3/8" (52.1 X 64.5 cm)

Title: Medallion Rug, Variant Star Ushak style. Anatolia (modern Turkey).

Artist: n/a

Date: 16th Century

Museum/ Source: Saint Louis Art Museum

Medium: Wool

Size: 10'3" x 7'6 1/4" (313.7 x 229.2 cm).

The Ardabil Carpet, Persia, dated 946 AH. V&A Museum

Persian Miniature

Sultan Sanjar and the Woman

1539

Title: Page with Hamza's Spies Scale the Fortres, from the Hamza-nama, North India.

Artist: n/a

Date: Mughal period c. 1567-1582

Museum/ Source: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

Medium: Gouache on cotton

Size: 30" X 24" (76 X 61cm)

Mansur

Turkey-Cock

1612

Mughal

Title: Taj Mahal, Agra, India, reign of Shah Jahan, Mughal

Artist: n/a

Date: Mughal period c.1632-1648

Museum/ Source: n/a

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a