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Richard Ettinghausen (1906–1979)

Author of Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

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Works by Richard Ettinghausen

Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250 (1987) — Author — 223 copies

Islam and the Arab world : faith, people, culture (1976) 174 copies

Arab Painting (1962) 65 copies

Turkish miniatures from the 13th to the 18th century (1965) 31 copies

Prayer rugs: Prayer rug exhibition, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21-Dec. 28, 1974, the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J., Jan. 20-Mar. 16, 1975 (1974) 15 copies

Islamic Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Spr. 1975) (1972) 12 copies

Islamic Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1978 (1978) 12 copies

Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World : Papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980,… (1980) 11 copies

The unicorn (1950) 7 copies

Notes on Islamic art in its historical setting (1975) 7 copies

Persian art : Calouste Gulbenkian collection (1972) 6 copies

Highlights of Persian Art (1979) 4 copies

Joseph Conrad; The Imaged Style (1970) 4 copies

Persian miniatures in the Bernard Berenson collection (World painting) (1961) 3 copies

Studies in art and literature of the Near East : in honor of Richard Ettinghausen 3 copies

Paintings of the sultans and emperors of India in American collections (1961) 3 copies

From Persia's Ancient Looms (1972) 2 copies

Art treasures of Turkey (1966) 2 copies

Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst; Festschrift für Ernst Kühnel zum 75. Geburtstag am 26. 10. 1957 (1959) 2 copies

Tales from a King's book of Kings : the Houghton Shah-Nameh miniatures — Author — 2 copies, 1 review

From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic world;: Three modes of artistic influence (The L. A. Mayor memorial studies in Islamic art and archaeology) (1972) 2 copies

Ancient carpets from the collection of the L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art 2 copies

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, June 1970: Islamic Carpets:The Joseph V. McMullan Collection (1970) 2 copies

Medieval Near Eastern Ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art 2 copies

Arte da Persia islamica 1 copy

Oriental art. Series O. Section IV, Iranian and Islamic art 1 copy

Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum (2013) 1 copy

Türkei Frühe Miniaturen 1 copy

Masterpieces from Turkey 1 copy

A selected and annotated bibliography of books and periodicals in Western languages dealing with the Near and Middle East : with special emphasis on medieval and modern times 1 copy

Persian ascension miniatures of the fourteenth century 1 copy

Magic Carpets; Rugs of the Orient 1 copy

Islamic art and archeology collected papers 1 copy

Associated Works

Mirror of the Invisible World: Tales from the Khamseh of Nizami (1975) — Foreword — 62 copies, 1 review

Near Eastern Culture and Society: A Symposium on the Meeting of East and West (2017) — Contributor — 18 copies

From Madina to Metropolis; Heritage and Change in the Near Eastern City (1973) — Contributor — 9 copies

A Royal Head from Ancient Egypt (1951) — Translator — 3 copies

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Birthdate: 1906-02-05
Date of death: 1979-04-02
Gender: male
Education: University of Frankfurt
Occupations: historian
curator
Organizations: Freer Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Relationships: Sgalitzer, Elisabeth (wife)
Nationality: Germany (birth)
USA
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Berlin, Germany
Place of death: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Associated Place (for map): Germany

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Tales from a King's book of Kings : the Houghton Shah-Nameh miniatures (catalogue of an exhibition held at the) Corning Museum of Glass, November 17-January 31, 1974 and the Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12-March 31, 1974 by Corning Museum of Glass

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Marie Lukens Swietochowski Contributor

T. Cuyler Young

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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.,

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Robert H. Brill Introduction

Tom L. Freudenheim Introduction

Fritz Meier Contributor

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Works: 33
Also by: 4
Members: 605
Popularity: #41,546
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 41
Languages: 5

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