Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes

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ID8919945
NOMBREAmélie Couvrat Desvergnes
NOMBRESAmélie Couvrat
APELLIDODesvergnes
FIRMADESVERGNES A C
AFILIACIONESIndependent book and paper conservator Utrecht The Netherlands
ORCID0000-0001-8371-3046
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2021
ÍNDICE H0

  • Cut-Out Calligraphy from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

    Open AccessAmélie Couvrat DesvergnesARTICLEJournal of Material Cultures in…2021

    Through the study of the materiality of three works from collections in Doha, Paris and Amsterdam, this paper intends to fill a gap in the knowledge of découpage calligraphy in Iran and shed light on its production processes. First, the origins and the context of the art will be explored through ancient and modern sources, followed by an examination of the tools used and the techniques of production, and finally an insight into the purpose or la …

  • Sayyid Yusuf’s 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll (Ziyārātnāma) in the Collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

    Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes et al.ARTICLEMuqarnas Online2016

    A pilgrimage scroll ( ziyārātnāma ) dated 1433 in the name of Sayyid Yusuf b. Sayyid Shihab al-Din Ma Waraʾ al-Nahri records an ʿumra to Mecca and visits ( ziyārāt ) to Medina, Jerusalem, Hebron, Najaf, and Karbala. This document reflects a common phenomenon in the central Islamic lands of the post-Mongol and pre-Safavid period, namely, the non-sectarian veneration of the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and its narrative provides unusually rich d…