The Diez Albums

Contexts and Contents
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32155-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1860 g

Reihe: Islamic Manuscripts and Books

The five Diez albums in Berlin are an important source for the study of Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid art. The 21 essays of this book contribute to deepening our understanding of the development of Persianate art and its perception in later times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gonnella, Julia

Weis, Friederike

Rauch, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Julia Gonnella, Friederike Weis, Christoph Rauch Introduction

The Albums and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez
Julian Raby Contents & Contexts: Re-Viewing the Diez Albums
David Roxburgh Memorabilia of Asia: Diez’s Albums Revisited
Christoph Rauch The Oriental Manuscripts and Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez and the Perception of Persian Painting in his Time

The Diez and the Topkapi Albums
Lâle Uluç The Perusal of the Topkapi Albums: A Story of Connoisseurship
Zeren Tanindi Repetition of Illustrations in the Topkapi Palace and Diez Albums
Simon Rettig Ja'far Tabrizi, “Second Inventor” of the Nasta'liq Script, and the Diez Albums

The Albums’ Contents: From the Mongols to the Timurids
Charles Melville The Illustration of the Turko-Mongol Era in the Berlin Diez Albums
Yuka Kadoi The Mongols Enthroned
Claus-Peter Haase Later Mongol and Early Timurid Representations of Rulers in the Diez Albums – Reflecting Changes of Ceremonial and Style
Barbara Brend The Depiction of Horses in the Diez Albums
Filiz Çakir Phillip Brave Warriors of Diez

The Albums’ Contents: Drawings and Sketches
Yves Porter Models, Sketches and Pounced Drawings in the Diez Albums: First Steps in the Making of Illustrated Manuscripts
Friederike Weis A Persianate Drawing of the Tazza Farnese: a Work by Muhammad Khayyam?
Oliver Hahn Scientific Investigation of Carbon Inks – an Analytical Challenge

Repatriations: the Diez Albums as a Source for Reconstructing Lost Art
Robert Hillenbrand The Great Mongol Shahnama: Some Proposed Repatriations
Bernard O’Kane The Great Jalayirid Shahnama
Massumeh Farhad The Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums
Karin Rührdanz Illustrated Messages of Love in the Diez Albums

Europe, China and Istanbul: The Albums in a Broader Perspective
Gülru Necipoglu Persianate Images Between Europe and China: The “Frankish Manner” in the Diez and Topkapi Albums, c. 1350-1450
Ching-Ling Wang Iconographic Turn: On Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Iconography in the Diez Albums
Serpil Bagci The Ottomans in Diez’s Collection

Appendix I: Conference Programme
Julia Gonnella Appendix II: Masterpieces from the Serail: The Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751-1817)
List of Contributors
Credits
Index of Names, Places and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Gonnella has studied Islamic Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and took her PhD at the University of Tübingen. For many years she has been excavating in Syria, particularly in Aleppo, and was teaching at the Free University in Berlin. Since 2009 she is curator at the Museum of Islamic Art and has organized numerous exhibitions, including Heroic Times. Thousand years of Shahnama (Berlin 2011 with Christoph Rauch), and How Islamic Art came to Berlin. The Museum Director and Collector Friedrich Sarre (Berlin 2015).

Friederike Weis, PhD (2005), Freie Universität Berlin. She worked as Assistant Curator at the Museum für Indische Kunst in Berlin, held several fellowships and co-curated the exhibition Joseph and Zulaikha: Relations between India, Europe and Persia in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett in 2014. She is a DFG-researcher at the Staatsbibliothek, with the project: „Autonomous pictures? Figural motifs in Persian drawings and paintings in the Diez albums”.

Christoph Rauch studied Arabic and Islamic studies at Leipzig. Since 2004 he has worked at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, where he was appointed head of the Oriental Department in 2010. He co-organized several conferences on manuscript collections and the history of Oriental studies, most recently the conference “Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905): Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies” in 2015. He is co-editor of The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition (Brill 2015).