Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Stuart Cary Welch

Kimbell Art Museum

Asia Society

Anthony Welch

The collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan contains some of the world's finest examples of painting and calligraphy and is perhaps the most important private Muslim collection of Islamic art. This volume, richly illustrated with 24 color plates and 101 black-and-white photographs, provides a brief history of the collection and offers a generous selection of paintings, manuscripts, calligraphies, bindings, and drawings that spans the geographic range of Islamic art from North Africa to India. Detailed discussions of each illustration introduce readers to the major patrons and artists in the development of the arts of the precious book. Anthony Welch and Stuart Cary Welch have selected the most magnificent pages from the prince's collection for this volume. Included are portraits of the great Mughal rulers of India, paintings from the pages of a sixteenth-century Shahnamah (Book of Kings) of Iran, and stunning examples of calligraphy. Among the Muslim manuscripts represented are Qur̕ans from North Africa, Ottoman Turkey, Iran, and India; historical works such as the Ottoman illustrated manuscript of the Tuhfet ul-Leta̕if; philosophical treatises such as the Ethics of Nasir al-Din Tusi of India; and literary works such as the late-sixteenth-century Anvar-i Suhayli, commissioned and probably illustrated by the leading Safavid Iranian painter Sadiqi Bek. -- Inside jacket flap.

The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

Arts of the Islamic Book

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

John Elderfield

Fauvism and Its Affinities

The "wild Beasts"

Jusepe de Ribera

José de Ribera

Exposition Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, December 4, 1982-February 6, 1983

Jusepe de Ribera, Lo Spagnoletto, 1591-1652

Art Institute of Chicago

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Paul Joannides

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Arteche Consultants Staff

Kimbell Art Museum Staff

National Gallery of Art Staff

The drawings featured in this volume are from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Eighteen sheets are supreme examples of Michelangelo's draftsmanship; fifty are by his contemporaries and successors - including Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Perino del Vaga, Pordenone, and Annibale Carracci - and demonstrate Michelangelo's impact on their technique, style, and imagery. Among the other artists represented are Alessandro Allori, Bartolommeo Ammanati, Baccio.

Drawings from Windsor Castle

Michelangelo and His Influence

David Franklin

Sebastian Schütze

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 10, 2011-Sept. 11, 2011 and at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 9, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.

Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome

National Gallery of Scotland

Hugh Macandrew

Old Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Catharine H. Roehrig

Renée Dreyfus

Cathleen A. Keller

A fascinating look at the artistically productive reign of Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh in ancient Egypt

From Queen to Pharaoh

Hatshepsut

Jeffrey Spier

Steven Fine

Kimbell art museum (Fort Worth, Tex.).

Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.

The Earliest Christian Art

Picturing the Bible

Andrea Bayer

"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Kimbell Art Museum

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