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Postgraduate Course: Medieval Persian Book Painting: Texts, Images and Patrons (HIAR11006)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course traces the evolution of Persian painting from its origins in the Arab pictorial tradition, through its passing encounter with the arts of Europe and China in the period of Mongol rule (1220-1336) until its coming of age in the 15th century under the patronage of enlightened princes of the house of Timur. The later period saw the formation and steady refinement of the so-called 'classical style' of Persian painting and culminated in the career of Bihzad, universally recognised in Iran and the West alike as the supreme painter in the Persian tradition. Particular attention will be paid to the prime masterpiece of Persian literature, the Book of Kings (Shahnama) of Firdausi (d.1020) and the various themes that find pictorial expression through its many-layered text.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Students will acquire a solid theoretical, historical and cultural framework for the field of Persian painting. A further aim will be to familiarise students with a wide variety of Persian texts. These will be religious, calendrical, historical, epic and lyric. Issues of patronage, technique and pictorial conventions will be tackled in the shifting contexts of different manuscripts, schools and periods.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/fineart
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Semester 1 or 2, Th at times to be arranged
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Robert Hillenbrand
Tel: (0131 6)50 4118
Email: R.Hillenbrand@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Lizzie Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5852
Email: lizzie.robertson@ed.ac.uk
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