With more than 200 gorgeous color plates including several two-page images larger than 24 x 17 inches and two stunning reproductions that fold out of the book to larger than 24 x 33 inches this substantive tome catalogs the work of 19th-century French Orientalist Emile Prisse d'Avennes. In his 40 years of traveling through the Middle East India and North Africa he documented his passion for Arab and Muslim art costume and architecture in a series of drawings paintings engravings and photographs the finest examples of which are collected here and captioned in English German and French. Here are minutely detailed drawings of the Mosquée de Qaytbay and the house of Bayt Al-Chalibi colorful mosaics from the tomb of Barsabay and an enameled glass lamp and full-figure portraits of dancing girls in flowing silk and an Abyssinian warrior in battle dress. The book's preface discusses Prisse d'Avennes's remarkable life as an explorer and scholar as well as his role in facilitating the study of Arab art in Western Europe.
Arab Sanatı
Fransız oryantalist Emile Prisse d'Avennes Orta Doğu Hindistan ve Kuzey Afrika'ya gerçekleştirildiği 40 yıllık seyahat boyunca incelediği Arap ve İslam sanatının en güzel örneklerini bu kitapta bir araya getirmiş.