Robert Hillenbrand
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Robert Hillenbrand - British scholar of Persian art
Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh[1] and St Andrews.[2] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008-09.[3] He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.[4][5]
In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California (Irvine), the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand.[6] In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.[7]
Selected publications[]
- Imperial Images in Persian Painting
- Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (co-editor)
- Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author)
- Islamic Art and Architecture
- The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
- Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols.)
- Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998)
Curated Exhibition[]
- Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)
References[]
- ^ https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/robert-hillenbrand
- ^ https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/robert-hillenbrand(69ec3ab1-a210-4721-9ca7-92bafbabc163).html
- ^ https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/aboutthedept/sladeprofs/sladeprofs/rh567@cam.ac.uk
- ^ "Aspects of Art Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ Hillenbrand, Robert (2011). "Propaganda in the Mongol 'World History'". British Academy Review. 17: 29–38. audio
- ^ https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/lifetimeAchievement
- ^ http://www.taqkasra.com/2016/12/10/documentary-film/
External links[]
- https://st-andrews.academia.edu/RobertHillenbrand
- "The Past as Propaganda: The Mongol "World History"". YouTube. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. June 17, 2011.
- "The Old and New Testaments in Islamic Painting with Dr. Robert Hillenbrand". YouTube. Asian Art Museum. October 1, 2014.
- "Prof. Robert Hillenbrand: 'Architecture in medieval Persian painting: fact or fantasy'". YouTube. The Iran Heritage Foundation. March 1, 2018.
- "Robert Hillenbrand Presents Art of Narrative in the Great Mongol Book of Kings". YouTube. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. April 29, 2020.
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