Ex Oriente lux. Sbornik statei k 75-letiiu Mikhaila Borisovicha Piotrovskogo / Ex Oriente lux: collected papers to mark the 75th anniversary of Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn cl. These articles recognize the director of the Hermitage's second career as a scholar of Islamic art and Arabic manuscripts. As son of archeologists, Mikhail Piotrovsky gained experience from an early age at excavations in southern Russia and the Near East, and in the late..... More