Was al-Wasiti able, in the drawings of his miniatures known as (Maqamat al-Hariri), to convey to us the idea of the structural buildings of his time? Or was he drawing from his imagination things that were not relevant to reality?
The attached photo, a copy of the Maqamat of Hariri, from the holdings of the National Library in Paris (3929)
Dear Anas Abdul kareem Mahmood
Nice question!
Unfortunately, I can not read the text in Arabic to understand better. The image is very intense and sensitively designed on details noted and deals with the ornamentation in my opinion. The artist has designed details like the cloth cloak very intensively. Also the braided band under the window and the window is very detailed on the ornamentation. I think there is a story being told about the person on the left. There are already small ideas of the structural facilities of his time communicated but I think rather the picture around the narrative, perhaps still around the interior architecture and interior design, would it be about the building details then not only 2 supports and brick arrangements are drawn. or?
But I also do not think that it is pure fantasy.
Best regards
Wolfgang
Thank you, dear Wolfgang Weinlich , for this beautiful detail and wonderful description. Indeed, it is a story that talks about the sleeping person on the left, wonderful. It is stories of personal heroism that are not realistic, in which there is a lot of variety in stories and events, as well as mentioning places and countries, I am researching the image of the buildings in these stories.
Dear Anas Abdul kareem Mahmood ,
exciting research area! Do you have a picture of the second with better resolution? Thank you very much!
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DEVELOPMENT OF PICTORIAL ART AND MINIATURE ART IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THEIR ROLE IN SOCIAL LIFE
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"The miniature art created during the Middle Ages was applied to small books or illustrated the entire page of a book in the form of a small-scale colored picture. These small-scale colored pictures were created using various materials (paper, metal, and silk). Therefore, the term "miniature" refers to all elements of the graphic part of a book, whether it is a small painting or an illustration that covers the entire page or sometimes only two adjacent pages. Thus, the term "miniature" has been widely used in relation to the fine arts of the Timurid era."
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