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Silk Roads at British Museum

LONDON - Camel caravans crossing desert dunes, merchants trading silks and spices at bazaars – these are the images that come to mind when we think of the Silk Roads. But the reality goes far beyond this. A ground-breaking new exhibition at the British...

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Tags: Exhibitions, camel, Tang dynasty (618–907), ivory, chess piece, Wall painting, ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’, Afrasiab, Samarkand, ‘The Franks Casket', Anglo-Saxon, Shoulder Clasp, figure of a lute player, al-Idrisi, Glass drinking horn, Buddha, Swat Valley, Dagger and sheath, Korea, Gongxian kilns, Gilded silver cup, Galloway Hoard, gold bowl, Romania, Palace of Varakhsha, Uzbekistan

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23 avril 2018

Intriguing Vatican and Sharjah Museum collections explore Islamic faith and culture

Taqsireh (Lady festive jacket), Palestine, late 19th or early 20th century, Vatican Anima Mundi Museum, inv. 112314. Photo © Vatican Museums. CANBERRA .- Fine embroidered textiles, camel and horse saddles, musical instruments and carved amulets, headline...

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Tags: Qing dynasty, Uzbekistan, Qur'an, suzani, Bukhara, Gimbri, lotar, Cloisonné vase with Islamic inscriptions, Bishtakhta, Sitara, Camel saddle, Kurab-a-kulang marano, Niger, Tuareg people, Bidri shield, Meshla, Taqsireh

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25 mars 2018

Smithsonian's Freer/Sackler weaves together traditional and contemporary fashion

WASHINGTON, DC .- “To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia,” is on view at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery March 24–July 29. Traditional 19-century ikat coats and panels from the Sackler’s collections, a gift of Guido Goldman, encourage visitors...

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Tags: Uzbekistan, Oscar de la Renta, Central Asia, ikat, Bukhara, Munisak, Pierre Balmain Haute Couture, Woman’s robe

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21 mai 2017

"A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti" on view at Harvard Art Museums

Chess versus Backgammon, illustrated folio from an Anthology of Persian Treatises, Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period, 1427. Ink, colors, silver, and gold on paper. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence....

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Tags: 15th century, 17th century, Bernard Berenson, Iran, Afghanistan, Venetian, Isfahan, Saint Jerome, Uzbekistan, Safavid period, Timurid period, Herat, Bukhara, Mughal period, Ilkhanid period, Qara Qoyunlu period, Bihzad, Turkman Period, Vittore Crivelli

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16 février 2016

Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

India, Bird Pendant, 17th century, gold set with gems, The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait. HOUSTON - The Museum’s landmark partnership with the Kuwait-based al-Sabah Collection and the cultural institution Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah...

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Tags: India, bowl, 17th century, Turkey, Syria, 13th Century, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Mosque Lamp, Egypt or Syria, 2nd half of 16th century, bird pendant, The al-Sabah Collection, 1300–1350, 2nd quarter of 16th century, c. 1319, Prayer Carpet

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13 janvier 2014

Carlo Cristi. Arte Orientale Tessili @ Asian Art in Brussels. 4 to 8 June 2014

Samadhi Buddha, Gilt bronze, Ceylon, Polonnaruva period, 11th-12th century. 17,5 cm h. Photo courtesy Carlo Cristi. Detail of a silk tunic with birds in trilobed niches and winged royal horses. Polychrome silk, Mon Dvaravati, Central Asia, (Uzbekistan)...

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Tags: gilt bronze, 11th-12th century, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Silk Tunic, 7th-8th Century, Ceylon, Polonnaruva period, Samadhi Buddha, Mon Dvaravati

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6 juillet 2013

The Cleveland Museum of Art opens new north wing gallery to the public

Silk Ikat-Velvet Woman’s Robe, Munisak, 1850–75. Uzbekistan, Bukhara. (Cleveland Museum of Art) CLEVELAND - Featuring 423 works, the new north wing gallery is the second to last portion of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s total renovation and expansion....

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Tags: Japan, Spain, Korea, Uzbekistan, Kamakura period, Guatemala, Ilkhanide, Kundika, Bukhara, 1850–75, Chimú, Maya style, Mesoamerica, Munisak, Nebaj region, Goryeo period, 1240–60, Grenada, Nasrid period, mid-1300s