Word: isfahan
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FOGG--Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through February...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
...have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...
...seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection of the surface almost makes up for the emptiness behind...