Persis Berlekamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 2135559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Persis Berlekamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Persis |
| FAMILY NAME | Berlekamp |
| SIGNATURE | BERLEKAMP P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Art Institute of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reflections on a Bridge and Its Waters
Whether for medieval or modern audiences, the Zangid bridge at Jazirat b. ʿUmar / Cizre / ʿAin Diwar has been integrally linked to its waters. Historically, reflections of its dome-like arch, astrological reliefs, and Kufic calligraphy shimmered on them in shifting combinations. The bridge and its waters thereby together expressed the widespread poetic trope of the earth as the mirror of the heavens, the causal link medieval audiences believed ex…
Symmetry, Sympathy, and Sensation
Talismans drawing on the combined iconographies of lions and dragons proliferated on the walls and doors of cities and civic institutions in early thirteenth-century Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia. This article examines them in light of three different medieval theoretical models, seeking to shed light on why intelligent people in their original milieus might have expected such talismans to have protective power
Visible Art, Invisible Knowledge
Kitab Suwar al-Kawakib (The Book of the Forms of the Stars) of ʿAbd al-Rahman b. ʿUmar al-Sufi (d. 986), though based largely on Ptolemy's Almagest , included much original material. In the 20th century, its importance for scholars lay mainly in its attestation of the ways Islamicate scholarship built on classical learning. Now we are finding that it also offers fascinating insights into the complex relationship between seeing and knowing in prem…
"Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam"
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval IslamPersis BerlekampThis original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cosmographies, Persis Berlekamp refutes the assertion often made by other historians of medieval Islamic art that, while representational images…
The Limits Of Artistic Exchange In Fourteenth-Century Tabriz
Among the most striking artifacts of the extraordinary cross-cultural encounters that took place in the fourteenth-century Mongol Empire stretching from China to eastern Europe is an illustrated manuscript from Tabriz on Chinese medicine. This chapter focuses on the paradox of the Tansūqnāma as it played out in the context of the manuscript's production in early fourteenth-century Tabriz. It explain how the same paradox frames the manuscript's an…
The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth–century Tabriz
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth-Century Tabriz
Painting as Persuasion
Symmetry, Sympathy, and Sensation
Talismans drawing on the combined iconographies of lions and dragons proliferated on the walls and doors of cities and civic institutions in early thirteenth-century Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia. This article examines them in light of three different medieval theoretical models, seeking to shed light on why intelligent people in their original milieus might have expected such talismans to have protective power
The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth–century Tabriz
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Painting as Persuasion
The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth-Century Tabriz
"Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam"
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval IslamPersis BerlekampThis original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic cosmographies, Persis Berlekamp refutes the assertion often made by other historians of medieval Islamic art that, while representational images…
The Limits Of Artistic Exchange In Fourteenth-Century Tabriz
Among the most striking artifacts of the extraordinary cross-cultural encounters that took place in the fourteenth-century Mongol Empire stretching from China to eastern Europe is an illustrated manuscript from Tabriz on Chinese medicine. This chapter focuses on the paradox of the Tansūqnāma as it played out in the context of the manuscript's production in early fourteenth-century Tabriz. It explain how the same paradox frames the manuscript's an…
The Limits of Artistic Exchange in Fourteenth–century Tabriz
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Visible Art, Invisible Knowledge
Kitab Suwar al-Kawakib (The Book of the Forms of the Stars) of ʿAbd al-Rahman b. ʿUmar al-Sufi (d. 986), though based largely on Ptolemy's Almagest , included much original material. In the 20th century, its importance for scholars lay mainly in its attestation of the ways Islamicate scholarship built on classical learning. Now we are finding that it also offers fascinating insights into the complex relationship between seeing and knowing in prem…
Symmetry, Sympathy, and Sensation
Talismans drawing on the combined iconographies of lions and dragons proliferated on the walls and doors of cities and civic institutions in early thirteenth-century Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia. This article examines them in light of three different medieval theoretical models, seeking to shed light on why intelligent people in their original milieus might have expected such talismans to have protective power
Reflections on a Bridge and Its Waters
Whether for medieval or modern audiences, the Zangid bridge at Jazirat b. ʿUmar / Cizre / ʿAin Diwar has been integrally linked to its waters. Historically, reflections of its dome-like arch, astrological reliefs, and Kufic calligraphy shimmered on them in shifting combinations. The bridge and its waters thereby together expressed the widespread poetic trope of the earth as the mirror of the heavens, the causal link medieval audiences believed ex…
History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works)