David J Roxburgh
Biographic Data
| ID | 565075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Roxburgh |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Roxburgh |
| SIGNATURE | ROXBURGH D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 3Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sayyid Yusuf’s 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll (Ziyārātnāma) in the Collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
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…
In Pursuit of Shadows
Focusing on the well-known 1237 Maqāmāt copied and illustrated by Yahya b. Mahmud. b. Yahya. b. Abi al-Hasan b. Kurriha al-Wasiti (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Ms. Arabe 5847), this essay reexamines the question of the interaction between al-Hariri’s text and al-Wasiti’s interpretation of it through a cycle of narrative paintings. The absence of such an approach can be explained by scholarly judgments going back to D. S. Rice’s essay …
“The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”
“The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”
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 Persian album, 1400-1600
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the prac…
Prefacing the Image
This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to the study of these sources are examined, followed by an analysis of the sociohistorical court-centered context; the circumstances of the texts' composition, reception, an…
On the Transmission and Reconstruction of Arabic Calligraphy
Of the complex factors that motivated collectors to gather calligraphies and to assemble collections of works by past masters, perhaps most crucial was the utility of the good example. Serving as a record of the calligrapher's act of writing, the specimen (khatt or mithal) was also thought to be a trace of the person, to manifest his morality: numerous statements, from as early as the tenth century, make it clear that calligraphies were regarded …
Micrographia
Persian Drawing, ca. 1400–1450
Persian Drawing, Ca. 1400–1450
Persian Drawing, ca. 1400-1450
Kamal Al-Din Bihzad and Authorship in Persianate Painting
The Study of Painting and the Arts of the Book
essays in this volume are revised versions of papers first presented at the conference, The Making and Reception of Painting in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, held in May 1999 under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Over two days, the speakers presented new research on various topics about painting and the arts of the book in the pre-modern Islamic world. Despite the breadth suggested by the confe…
Kamal al-Din Bihzad and Authorship in Persianate Painting
The Study of Painting and the Arts of the Book
La peinture persane
Disorderly Conduct
Disorderly Conduct
Heinrich Friedrich Von Diez and His Eponymous Albums
Heinrich Friedrich Von Diez and His Eponymous Albums
On the Transmission and Reconstruction of Arabic Calligraphy
Of the complex factors that motivated collectors to gather calligraphies and to assemble collections of works by past masters, perhaps most crucial was the utility of the good example. Serving as a record of the calligrapher's act of writing, the specimen (khatt or mithal) was also thought to be a trace of the person, to manifest his morality: numerous statements, from as early as the tenth century, make it clear that calligraphies were regarded …
Persian Drawing, ca. 1400–1450
Heinrich Friedrich Von Diez and His Eponymous Albums
Heinrich Friedrich Von Diez and His Eponymous Albums
Disorderly Conduct
Disorderly Conduct
Kamal Al-Din Bihzad and Authorship in Persianate Painting
The Study of Painting and the Arts of the Book
essays in this volume are revised versions of papers first presented at the conference, The Making and Reception of Painting in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, held in May 1999 under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Over two days, the speakers presented new research on various topics about painting and the arts of the book in the pre-modern Islamic world. Despite the breadth suggested by the confe…
Kamal al-Din Bihzad and Authorship in Persianate Painting
The Study of Painting and the Arts of the Book
La peinture persane
Persian Drawing, ca. 1400–1450
Persian Drawing, Ca. 1400–1450
Persian Drawing, ca. 1400-1450
Prefacing the Image
This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to the study of these sources are examined, followed by an analysis of the sociohistorical court-centered context; the circumstances of the texts' composition, reception, an…
On the Transmission and Reconstruction of Arabic Calligraphy
Of the complex factors that motivated collectors to gather calligraphies and to assemble collections of works by past masters, perhaps most crucial was the utility of the good example. Serving as a record of the calligrapher's act of writing, the specimen (khatt or mithal) was also thought to be a trace of the person, to manifest his morality: numerous statements, from as early as the tenth century, make it clear that calligraphies were regarded …
Micrographia
The Persian album, 1400-1600
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the prac…
“The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”
“The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”
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…
In Pursuit of Shadows
Focusing on the well-known 1237 Maqāmāt copied and illustrated by Yahya b. Mahmud. b. Yahya. b. Abi al-Hasan b. Kurriha al-Wasiti (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Ms. Arabe 5847), this essay reexamines the question of the interaction between al-Hariri’s text and al-Wasiti’s interpretation of it through a cycle of narrative paintings. The absence of such an approach can be explained by scholarly judgments going back to D. S. Rice’s essay …
Sayyid Yusuf’s 1433 Pilgrimage Scroll (Ziyārātnāma) in the Collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
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…
Art (18 works) · Art history (13 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · Painting (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Architecture and Cultural Influences (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works)