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About The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina

This first supplement to Islamic Art takes as its subject the painted ceilings of the 12th-century Palatine Chapel in Palermo, Italy, with studies by Jeremy Johns and Ernst J Grube.

Johns contributes an essay on the date of the ceiling; Grube investigates the stylistic and iconographic background against which the ceiling took its complex and intricate shape, and its painted decoration.

Table of Contents

• The Date of the Ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo| | Jeremy Johns (pp1-14)
• The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo and Their Relation to the Artistic Traditions of the Muslim World and the Middle Ages | Ernst J Grube (pp15-518)
• Bibliography

Editors' Note

• Editors' Note (original pages from the book)

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Forthcoming -- Islamic Art Volume VI

Volume VI of Islamic Art, with articles by:

• Lavinia Davies, on the Turkish tiles made in the 20th century for the 18th-century Sledmere House in Yorkshire;
• Ulrich Marzolph, on the 19th- and early20th-century lithographed Persian-language copies of the Kalilah u Dimnah;
• Two studies on 16th-century Turkic views of dynastic history, one by Serpil Bagci, on illustrated volumes recording the lives and conquests of the Ottoman sultans, the other by Laura Parodi, on the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun;
• Marco Spallanzani, who contributes a short piece on carpets at the Medici court in Florence in the second half of the 16th century; and
• Eleanor Sims, on a new interpratation of a now-celebrated painting preserved in one of the equally celebrated albums in the Topkapi Saray Library in Istanbul.