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Title:
Volume 30 - Issue 1
Date:
1976
Table of contents:
- p. Front and Back [Advertisements]: [Photographs: Persian Paintings -- Fourteenth Century]
- p. 2-4 [Also in - Persian Painting: Fourteenth Century Fifteenth Century; Pages - 34 Foreword by Douglas Barrett]: Barrett, Douglas, Unveiling "the Face of Persian Painting" | A foreword to Marg's issue on heritage of painting in 14th-century Iran (the next issue deals with painting in 15th-century Iran). The unity provided to Asia by the Mongols at the end of the 13th century facilitated trade and crafts. By the early 14th century, the intercourse between east and west Asia fruitfully affected the arts -- mainly painting -- in China and Iran. In Iran, during the reign of Il Khanid Abu Sa'id (1316-35), the master Ahmad Musa "unveiled the face of painting" and invented the modern style.
- p. 5-9 [Also in - Persian Painting: Fourteenth Century Fifteenth Century; Pages - 5-9]: Marg, The Emergence of Style in Fourteenth Century Persian Painting | The essay looks at miniatures painted during the Caliphate period (10th-11th century), their motifs, transition in style, the new Mongol style in Persia under Sultan Abu Sa'id, and the patronage towards painting by the Il Khanid rulers in 14th-century Iran.
- p. 10-37 [Also in - Persian Painting: Fourteenth Century Fifteenth Century; Pages - 10-37]: Anand, Mulk Raj, The Sources of Creative Art in Persia in the Early Medieval Centuries | The mosque became the centre of all creative life of the Muslim community. Under the Abbasids (756 onwards), the capital shifted to Baghdad, and craftsmen "decorated" the architecture. Arts such as Arab calligraphy, wall painting, painted pottery, manuscript painting, and classical poetry flourished, mixing with various influences through the Achemenid, Greek, Parthian, Sasanian, Umayid, Abbasid, and Seljuk traditions.
- p. 38-60 [Also in - Persian Painting: Fourteenth Century - Fifteenth Century; Pages - 38-60]: Titley, Norah, Fourteenth Century Persian Painting: A Survey | The article traces the main types and centres of painting -- Tabriz; Fars under the Mongols; Il Khanid, and later the Jalarids (particularly Shiraz) under the Inju and Muzaffavid rulers; and Baghdad -- and examines various manuscript paintings of these periods. It also studies the effect of the Mongol invasions in the early 13th century on the existing styles in north Iran (particularly Tabriz), and emergence of new styles in the 14th century.