History 2606E Lecture 12: Lecture 12 – Islamic Art
9 Feb 2014
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Islamic art is the study of unique monuments, private cases: methodologies used in classifying and studying islamic art, chronological approach, mostly classifying in centuries, qualitative, according to branches, quantitative: how many items have survived, historical insights, was it religious art, when, where and how did islamic art develop, historians have always claimed that there is very little art in the arabian desert, therefore no inspiration, not completely correct, recent excavations found a great deal of art, byzantium and sassanid persia had both greater display of art. Sassanid persian art was a vital force as well as byzantium: islamic art developed together with architecture, so the study of decorative art follows closely with architecture, did islamic art begin with the mosque, that means that we assume that art was religious but the first mosques remained undecorated, furthermore, historians believe that the encounter with the churches in the.
