Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The interest in manuscripts from the East in Western countries and in France is an old tradition but the fascination for their illuminated decor and especially for their paintings developed in the public only during the last third of the 19th century.
At the initial stage, scientists try to collect all the possible texts, scientific, historical, literary and religious, and to study their content. Only then a certain classification of the collected material occurs. The originality of Mawarannahr schools was revealed thanks to the preparation of catalogues and the organization of exhibitions, the oldest of which is that of Munich in 1910 (‘‘Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst’’). They helped scientists to open the great Timurid schools of Herat in the first half of the 15th century – with Baysunghur and Shahrukh – and at the end of the same century with Sultan Husayn Bayqara and his vizier Alisher Navoi. They also proved that in Bukhara, during the 16th century, the school was very active under the patronage of the Sheibanid rulers.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Illustrated manuscripts from Mawarannahr in the collections of France" (Volume XXIX) in the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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