This second volume continues the presentation of the Khalili Collection's holdings in Islamic lacquer, the world's largest and most important collection. As well as illustrating all 450 objects, this two-volume catalogue provides a major new study of the subject by two of the leading authorities in the field, including Dr. Khalili himself.

Product Description: Published in honour of Basil W. Robinson, Keeper Emeritus of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a key contributor to the growing scholarly interest in Persian miniatures for over 50 years, this book contains both personal appreciations of his work and a bibliography of his writings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Iranian art of the Qajar period (1779-1925) has long been neglected and is little understood. This beautifully illustrated book for the first time comprehensively examines the flowering of Persian painting and the visual arts of this period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of the development of this pivotal branch of Islamic art, which absorbed the influence of Arab and Chinese painting, and influenced in turn the miniature painting of Mughal India...read more

A guide to budget travel in Europe provides money-saving tips, sightseeing information, and thousands of listings of economical hotels, hostels, pensiones, guesthouses, and bed-and-breakfasts for all major European cities. Original.

Presents reproductions of the prints of the nineteenth-century Japanese artist, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, describes the stories illustrated in them, and examines Kuniyoshi's artistic career

Product Description: Persian Paintings in the John Rylands Library