Arabesque - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Arabesque - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Komaroff, Linda

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060656
Doc. NO	:	ALei1053
Main Entry	:	Komaroff, Linda
Title & Author	:	Arabesque - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Komaroff, Linda
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,263 words)
Abstract	:	The arabesque , a vegetal design that is one of the most characteristic and recognisable features of Islamic art, bears a Western name that was in use as early as the seventeenth century to describe a type of Islamic ornament also emulated in European art. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the term acquired a more precise meaning, as art historians, taking a formalist and linear approach, began to classify and define this type of ornament and examine its possible sources, tracing its development to Late Antique and Sāsānian
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1053.pdf