Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Asia Society Museum, New York, Oct. 16, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004 and at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Palazzo Reale, Milan, Feb. 23-June 28, 2004.
The world of the early Safavids / Sheila R. Canby -- Building on the past: the shaping of the Safavid architecture, 1501-76 / Sussan Babaie -- Calligraphy in the Safavid period 1501-76 / Priscilla Soucek -- Safavid painting / Sheila R. Canby -- Safavid illumination / Sheila R. Canby -- Safavid bookbinding / Zeren Tanindi -- The rise of the lacquer binding / Tim Stanley -- Early Safavid metalwork / James Allan -- Safavid magic bowls / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Sixteenth-century Persian ceramics / Yolanda Crowe -- Chinese ceramics in early Safavid Iran / Regina Krahl -- Early Safavid carpets and textiles / Jon Thompson -- Through a glass darkly? Glimpses of Safavid fashions of the sixteenth century / Jennifer M. Scarce -- The horoscope of Shah Tahmasp / Sergei Tourkin -- Appendices.
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Court arts of Safavid Iran
Tahmasp, I,1514-1576.
Asia Society.
Museo Poldi-Pezzoli
Palazzo reale di Milano
Architecture, Safavid, Exhibitions.
Art, Safavid, Exhibitions.
Art, Iranian, Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Safavid, Exhibitions.