BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20231105T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1843.events_uoft_date.0@www.medieval.utoronto.ca CREATED:20230331T194203Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nMonday, April 24, 2023 10:30 am to 12:30 pm \n LI301 \n Lillian Massey \n 125 Queen's Park, 3rd floor \n\nSpeakers \nRobert Hillenbrand \n\nDescription: \nTitle:  'What problems does the G reat Mongol Shahnama pose?'RSVP required (limited spaces available). Upon registration, participants will receive an email with suggested readings and an opportunity to submit advance questions.Abstract: The Great Mongol Shahnama signaled an extraordinary chapter in the visual culture of Iran. Begun in the 1330s in Tabriz during the reign of the Mongol ruler Abu Sa’i d, the manuscript was dismembered and dispersed in the early 20th century . The Great Mongol Shahnama is characterized by its large-scale folios and unprecedented innovations such as the development of pictorial space, an expanded range of emotional expression, experiments in composition and f ormat, and a radical approach to colour co-ordination and contrast. This masterclass explores some of the problems that the 58 surviving paintings pose including the manuscript’s identity, reception, styles(s), and the artistic milieu of its production. Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educa ted at Cambridge and Oxford and has spent most of his career teaching at t he University of Edinburgh, with visiting professorships at Princeton, U CLA, Bamberg, Leiden, Dartmouth College, New York, Cairo, and Gronin gen. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art at the University o f Edinburgh and Honorary Professor of Islamic Art at the University of St Andrews. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting\ , and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and early Islamic Sy ria. His thirteen books include Imperial Images in Persian Painting; Isla mic Art and Architecture (revised and expanded edition, 2021); The Archi tecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction; the prize-winning Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning; The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. A landmark of modern Islamic architecture; An unknown masterpiece from M ongol Iran; Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author), The Great Mongol Shahnama and four volumes of his collected articles: Studies in Med ieval Islamic Architecture I and II; Studies in the Islamic Arts of the B ook; and Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts. In addition, he has edi ted or co-edited thirteen books, published some 200 articles on aspects o f Islamic art and architecture, and organised ten conferences.  He has se rved as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recommended Readings (regi stered participants will receive .pdf copies in advance): Adamova, A. T.\ , Medieval Persian Painting: The Evolution of an Artistic Vision, ed. and tr. J. M. Rogers (New York, 2008), chapter one. Blair, S., ‘The devel opment of the illustrated book in Iran’, Muqarnas 10 (1993), 266–74   Gr abar, O. and S. S. Blair, Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illu strations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (Chicago and London, 1980)    Schr oeder, E., ‘Ahmed Musa and Shams al-Din: A review of fourteenth-century painting’, Ars Islamica VI/1 (1939), 113–42     \n\nContact Information: \n CMS Communications medieval.communications@utoronto.ca \n\nSponsors \n Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative operates (IAMCC), Centre f or Medieval Studies \n125 Queen's Park, 3rd floor \n\nCategories \n Lectu res \n\nAudiences \n FacultyGraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230424T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230424T123000 LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T131134Z LOCATION:125 Queen's Park, 3rd floor SUMMARY:IAMCC Distinguished Lecture URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/iamcc-distinguished-le cture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR