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Persian architecture; the triumph of form and color

by: Pope, Arthur Upham, 1881-1969

Publication date: 1965

Topics: Architecture -- Iran -- History, Islamic architecture -- Iran, Architecture -- Iran -- Histoire, Architecture, Islamic architecture, Iran

Publisher: New York, G. Braziller

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

288 pages 28 cm

Bibliographical references included in "Notes": pages 272-280. "Selected bibliography": pages 281-283

From the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Achaemenids -- Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanians : reassertion of Persian forms -- Early Islam : new purposes -- The Seljuks : structure as beauty -- The meaning and function of Persian decoration -- The Mongols : destruction and grandeur -- The Timurids : refinement and opulence -- The Safavid culmination -- Summary of forms and structural problems