Bahram Gur hunting. The king sits on a camel and has just shot a gazelle with his arrow. From a distance Arzu plays the harp, sitting on horseback. Or. 494. Persian, paper, 547 ff., nasta`liq script, illuminated and illustrated, dated Saturday 15 Ramadan 840/1437, copied by `Imad al-Din `Abd al-Rahman al-Katib

 

The First Graduate Workshop in pre-Modern Iranian Studies

 


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Yuka Kadoi


- c. Ph.D in History of Art (University of Edinburgh-UK): 'Chinese elements in Iranian art under the Mongols'. Supervisor: Prof. Robert Hillenbrand.

Research interests: Medieval Iranian and Central Asian art

- Iranian art under the Mongols (in particular, miniature painting, textiles
and costumes)
- chinoiserie in Iranian art
- Iconography
- Islamic ornament
- Iranian and Central Asian architectural decoration (Ilkhanid and early
Timurid periods)

Publications

- 'Cloud patterns: the exchange of ideas between China and Iran under the Mongols', Oriental Art, vol.48, no.2, (2002).
- 'Textiles in the Great Mongol Shahnama: a new approach to Ilkhanid costumes' in Proceedings of the Second Edinburgh Shahnama Conference [in press];
- 'The Mandarin Square in Ilkhanid painting', Hali [forthcoming]).

Contact:
Yuka Kadoi
Ph.D.candidate
History of Art
18, George Square
EH8 9LD
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom

Email: ykadoi@hotmail.com / Y.Kadoi@sms.ed.ac.uk
Tel&Fax(home):+44-131-6681739

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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