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Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture Seminar:
‘The Magnificent Seven’: The Great Fāṭimid Rock Crystal Ewers
Jeremy Johns, Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean, Director, Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford
Thursday, March 5, 2015, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Dear Pedram Khosronejad, As you possibly know, the famous Arabic manuscript of Jami' al-Tawarikh from the 14th century carries different depictions of non-Mongol people, including Abyssinians. At the end of the 14th century, several depictions of black people were added to the manuscript Hazine 1654. Several paintings showing the Indians in black survive from the kitabkhana of Shahrukh in the Hazine 1653 and the dispersed manuscript of Majma' al-Tawarikh. All the best, Mohamad Reza Ghiasian
A New Exhibition "MATISSE. ARABESQUE" is to be opened on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 7 pm. at the Le Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (via XXIV Maggio 16).
