Qusayr Amra : art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria /

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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...

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Art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria
Front matter --
Contents --
Maps and Illustrations --
Abbreviations --
Preface --
1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle --
2. Luxuries of the Bath --
3. The Hunt --
4. "O God, Bless the Amír" --
5. The Princely Patron --
6. Maintaining the Dynasty --
7. The Six Kings --
8. A Captive Sasanian Princess --
9. Quṣayr Ἁmra Contextualized --
10. Umayyad Self-Representation --
Epilogue --
Appendix. The Value of Arabic Literary Sources --
Bibliography --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Fowden, Garth
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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, h'as 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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxix, 390 pages) : illustrations, map
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-374) and index.
ISBN:
9786612357022
9781282357020
1282357026
9780520929609
0520929608
9781597348447
1597348449
Schlagworte:
Qusayr Amrah (Jordan : Dwelling)
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