Wendy Westover was regarded by her colleagues as one of Britain’s finest practitioners of the calligraphic arts: not only did her writing show astonishing precision, but her standards of miniature ...
Bent over his desk, an Iranian illuminator puts the last touches on a gilded garden of the minuscule intertwined paisleys that have decorated the Koran for hundreds of years. One of the oldest Iranian ...
Alhamra on The Mall is currently hosting the National College of Art (NCA) Calligraphy and Illumination show. The show is a collection of work of 14 students who took a one-year diploma course to ...
Written by the celebrated Iranian calligrapher Hamidreza Qelichkhani, “A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts” was rendered by Rebecca Stengel. The book has been edited by Shervin ...
It doesn’t take an understanding of the Arabic language to appreciate the beauty of the calligraphic works on display at “Calligraphy and Illumination” exhibition which launched yesterday at Katara ...
Mohammad Hossein Aghamiri, an artist who specialises in Persian miniatures, uses a magnifying glass as he works on one of his pieces depicting al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Koran — ATTA KENARE ...
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