Qusayr 'Amra (eBook)

Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria

Garth Fowden (Autor)

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2004
424 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-92960-9 (ISBN)

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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2004
• Reihe/Serie: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Reihe/Serie: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Abbasid • Abd al Malik • al azraq • al buldn • Alois Musil • amir • ancient art • apodyterium • Arab • arabic • Arabic Poetry • Architecture • Art History • bath house • baths • captive woman • court life • Dancing Girls • Decorative arts • desert • Dynasty • femininity • frescoes • Gender • HUNT • hunting lodge • Iconography • Iran • Islam • Jordan • khusraw • Late Antiquity • Middle East • Monument • murals • Musicians • Muslim • Mythology • Negus • Nonfiction • ODE • Persia • Prince • Princess • qusayr amra • Roderic • Royal Court • self fashioning • shaykh musa • Syria • Umayyad • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-520-92960-8 / 0520929608
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92960-9 / 9780520929609