Professor Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom, Claude Cernuschi, Kjeld Von Folsach, Nancy Netzer
With a history spanning some fourteen centuries, Islamic art is one of the world's great artistic traditions, although it largely eschews such familiar art forms as painting on canvas and monumental sculpture. "Cosmophilia" is the catalog for an exhibition comprising 123 of the finest examples of Islamic art from the C. L. David Collection in Copenhagen, Denmark, shown at the McMullen Museum at Boston College and soon to travel to the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. These beguiling works from Spain, West Africa, China, and Indonesia include ornamental textiles, calligraphy,...
With a history spanning some fourteen centuries, Islamic art is one of the world's great artistic traditions, although it largely eschews such familia...
