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
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This edition of the complete catalogue of the Hermitage publishes exquisite examples of Iranian metalwork from the world’s largest collection. Among the themes that the author develops in the introduction are the use of inscriptions (verses, prayers) to ascertain origin; names of owners and..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an extensive Hermitage exhibition displays works from successive periods of Persian painting and drawing, in various media, and employing different techniques. The format is conducive to careful study of each work with many full-page details. Some works are published for the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2010. sewn cl. Three chapters introduce the catalogue: a brief history of Persian painting, in which changes in style and content are followed; Russia and Iran: diplomacy and art from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, which sketches the circumstances that led to significant collections being built..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition inspired by the famous travelogue of Ibn Battutah (14th c.) draws on the collections of the Hermitage to publish a cornucopia of works of fine and decorative art from the lands that Ibn Battutah visited in southern Europe, the..... More
Kazan: Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel’stvo, 2021. Sewn cl. Works from museums, libraries, and archives document visually, and the author’s scrupulous research narrates how the art of manuscripts and then printed books arose in southern Russia among the Tartars and evolved over approximately three centuries. Manuscript art continued after printing presses were..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2019. Sewn pb. This is the first scholarly catalogue of the editions of the Koran published in Kazan between 1816 and 1918. Each book is described in detail and the colophon with basic data about the edition is reproduced in Tatar or Arabic. The publication of the Koran..... More
Samara: Agni, 2005. Sewn cl. Published here is a great work of Moghul book art dating to the 1500s, the Baburnama or illustrated memoir of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, founder of the Moghul Empire. The introduction outlines the history of the manuscript collection of the Museum of the Arts of Asian..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum stems from collections built in the pre-Revolutionary period, first, from the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and, second, from the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, whose works passed to the Russian Museum after its closing. The author..... More
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes forms of textile art that have been extinct since the indigenous populations of Crimea were expelled by Stalin in 1944. The different coasts of Crimea and the inland steppe areas developed their own distinct traditions. Content: collections of Crimean weaving; outline..... More
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani, 2019. Continuing a series of major exhibitions exploring the artistic legacy and material culture of Genghis Khan and the twelfth- and thirteenth-century empire of the Golden Hoard, the Hermitage and ten other museums and private collections exhibited and publish here 318 works deriving from Asian and European..... More
Helsinki: Designmuseo, 2007. Sewn pb. The introduction explains the range of items embroidered in Central Asia used in everyday life for ornament and ritual — carpets, prayer rugs, clothing, hats, belts and boots. Illustrating the spectrum of nonfigurative imagery of Islamic art, the works form a great private collection. 159..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2011. Sewn pb. On the basis of works from the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, this Hermitage exhibition catalogue shows the development of Islamic architectural forms from the establishment of Islam in the late seventh century until the nineteenth century, when European influence gave rise to different..... More
Makhachkala: Dagestan, 2016. Sewn cl. The text explains Islamic ornamentation adducing many model patterns which form the basis of jewelry and metalwork designs in the Caucasus. Izabakarov, the contemporary artist on whom this monograph is based, uses imaginative designs drawing on traditional Islamic art to exploit all that can be..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2023. Sewn pb. Scholars and curators introduce each section by sketching the history of the collection and pointing out its most significant works. They provide detailed entries on each work, and high quality illustrations capture the detail and beauty of the works. Section headings: Book art; Calendars and shamail; Islamic..... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Kolomensk Museum-Preserve outside Moscow begins with approximately 100 drawings and paintings by a major Russian artist of the first half of the twentieth century Evgenii Lansere who was commissioned in the 1920s to portray the unique landscape, archtecture, costume..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2015. Abdu’l-Qasim Firdausi’s book of kings ("Shakh-Nama", A.D. 1010) mixes history and legend as it recounts the exploits of Iranian rulers. It was copied and recopied over the centuries, and the Russian National Library has 15 manuscripts dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2020. Pb. This catalogue is a paean to the collectors, some of Europe's first Orientalists, who recognized the artistic and historical value of manuscripts from Persia, Syria, Egypt, India, Tibet, China, Japan and other regions of Asia. The author publishes her research on several topics..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2017. Pb. Published here are miniatures from Persian manuscripts of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries illustrating compositions written by the fifteenth-century author Abdurrakhman Dzhami. His works vary greatly from didactic pieces (“Gift to the noble,” “The shah listens to instructions of the dervishes”) and..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2018. Sewn cl. This is the first complete publication of an Arabic manuscript with 96 miniatures in collection the Institute of Eastern Manuscripts (Asiatic Museum) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Based on a literary text of the eleventh and early twelfth century, the..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2008. Pb. This monograph reproduces and studies some of the best works from the collection of Persian manuscripts in the Russian National Library dating to the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. As a whole they show the stages of book art in Iran over four centuries. Included..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2018. Pb. The Persian poet Nizami from Ganja (contemporary Azerbaijan) was writing in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century. His works were cherished by many generations: published here are copies in the Russian National Library done by scribes and illuminators from the 14th to the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Pb. The articles in the first volume of papers from a 2015 conference hosted by the Hermitage and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in St. Petersburg publishresearch on various aspects of pre-Islamic Iran: history, linguistics, art and archaeology. 385 p., 25 cm, approx. 100 color and..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzeii istorii religii, n.d. pb. This catalogue publishes a rarely seen collection of metalwork, jewelry, ceramics, books, and book holders originating in Islamic countries. The beauty of the metalwork, especially in ritual vessels and arms, comes forth in this well photographed and printed catalogue. A set of richly..... More