E-Books lesen Islamic Art of Illumination: Classical Tazhib
from Ottoman to Contemporary Times
By Sema Onat
Islamic Art of Illumination presents an amazing mixture of classical
Turkish illumination patterns and their contemporary interpretations. It
illustrates how illumination, also known as the art of tezhip, was applied to
various articles during the Ottoman period, including pictures, royal edicts
and insignia, tiles, chests, gun holsters, shields, and even costumes
prepared for the Sultan and his family. It also shows how today
illumination has extensively been applied on architectural surfaces, book
covers, manuscripts, carpets, textiles, ceramics, glass and wood panels,
and metal works. The author, a prominent illumination artist, displays her
incredible pieces of art, skillfully swirling her imagination together with
classical Turkish Islamic patterns of illumination. In richly illuminated
designs using motifs such as buds and roses, as well as stylized and
naturalistic flowers, she exhibits all of the geometrical, foliate, and floral
patterns used in the art. She also takes a
