Quṣayr ʻAmra : art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria / / Garth Fowden

• Autore: Fowden Garth
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 390 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 751.7/3/0956959
• Soggetto topico: Mural painting and decoration, Umayyad - Jordan - Foreign influences; Arabic poetry - 622-750 - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: abbasid; abd al malik; al azraq; al buldn; alois musil; amir; ancient art; apodyterium; arab; arabic poetry; arabic; architecture; art history; bath house; baths; captive woman; court life; dancing girls; decorative arts; desert; dynasty; femininity; frescoes; gender; hunt; hunting lodge; iconography; iran; islam; jordan; khusraw; late antiquity; middle east; monument; murals; musicians; muslim; mythology; negus; nonfiction; ode; persia; prince; princess; qusayr amra; roderic; royal court; self fashioning; shaykh musa; syria; umayyad; women
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-374) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle -- 2. Luxuries of the Bath -- 3. The Hunt -- 4. "O God, Bless the Amír" -- 5. The Princely Patron -- 6. Maintaining the Dynasty -- 7. The Six Kings -- 8. A Captive Sasanian Princess -- 9. Quṣayr Ἁmra Contextualized -- 10. Umayyad Self-Representation -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Value of Arabic Literary Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or' 740s, h'as proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.
• Altri titoli varianti: Art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria
• Titolo autorizzato: Qusayr 'Amra
• ISBN: 1-282-35702-6; 9786612357022; 0-520-92960-8; 1-59734-844-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248228803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 36.