The Diez Albums : Contexts and Contents.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Albums and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez -- Chapter 2 Contents &amp -- Contexts: Re-viewing the Diez Albums -- Chapter 3 Memorabilia of Asia: Diez's Albums Revisited -- Chapter 4 The Oriental Manuscripts and Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez and the Perception of Persian Paintingin His Time -- The Diez and the Topkapı Albums -- Chapter 5 The Perusal of the Topkapı Albums: A Storyof Connoisseurship -- Chapter 6 Repetition of Illustrations in the Topkapı Palace and Diez Albums -- Chapter 7 Jaʿfar Tabrizi, "Second Inventor" of the Nastaʿlīq Script, and the Diez Albums -- The Albums' Contents: From the Mongols to the Timurids -- Chapter 8 The Illustration of the Turko-Mongol Era in the Berlin Diez Albums -- Chapter 9 The Mongols Enthroned -- Chapter 10 Royal Insignia in the Periods from the Ilkhanids to the Timurids in the Diez Albums -- Chapter 11 The Depiction of Horses in the Diez Albums -- Chapter 12 Brave Warriors of Diez -- The Albums' Contents: Drawings and Sketches -- Chapter 13 Models, Sketches, and Pounced Drawings in the Diez Albums: First Steps in the Making of Illustrated Manuscripts -- Chapter 14 A Persianate Drawing of the Tazza Farnese: A Work by Muhammad Khayyam? -- Chapter 15 Scientific Investigation of Carbon Inks: An Analytical Challenge -- Repatriations: The Diez Albums as a Sourcefor Reconstructing Lost Art -- Chapter 16 The Great Mongol Shāhnāma: Some Proposed Repatriations -- Chapter 17 The Great Jalayirid Shāhnāma -- Chapter 18 The Dīvān of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums -- Chapter 19 Illustrated Messages of Love in the Diez Albums -- Europe, China and Istanbul: The Albums in a Broader Perspective -- Chapter 20 Persianate Images between Europe and China:The "Frankish Manner" in the Diez and Topkapı Albums, c. 1350-1450.

Chapter 21 Iconographic Turn: On Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Iconography in the Diez Albums -- Chapter 22 The Ottomans in Diez's Collection -- Appendix 1 Conference Programme -- Appendix 2 Masterpieces from the Serail: The Albums of Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751-1817) -- Credits -- Index of Names, Dynasties and Epochs -- Index of Works and Manuscripts -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects.

The five Diez albums in Berlin are an important source for the study of Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid art. The 21 essays of this book contribute to deepening our understanding of the development of Persianate art and its perception in later times.

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