Islamic Art Supplement I: The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina [2005]

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.

Edited by Ernst Grube and Eleanor Sims

Saffron ISBN-10: 1872843816

Saffron ISBN-13: 781872843810

Published: 2005

518pp, 832 illustrations, 165 of them in colour, printed on heavy artpaper

Size: 305mm [h] x 218mm [w]   

Binding: Hard Cover

Delivery weight: 2,600 g

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Summary of the Contents

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.

 

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