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Kartika Affandi. Abed Abdi (born 1942), Palestinian painter; Zainul Abedin (1914-1976), Bangladeshi painter; Affandi (1907-1990), Indonesian painter; İsmail Acar (born 1971), Turkish painter
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There are also intricately decorated caskets and chests from various periods. A spectacular and famous (and far from flat) roof was one of the Islamic components of the 12th century Norman Cappella Palatina in Palermo, which picked from the finest elements of Catholic, Byzantine and Islamic art. Other famous wooden roofs are in the Alhambra in ...
Although it is rare in Islamic metalwork for artists to sign or date their pieces, several objects in the collection have signed names or dates. [48] Some bear the names of patrons; [48] for example, a 14th-century silver-inlaid brass bowl bears the name of Al-Nasir Muhammad, a 13th-century Mamluk Sultan. [52]
T. W. Arnold (1864–1930), an early historian of Islamic art, stated that "Islam has never welcomed painting as a handmaid of religion as both Buddhism and Christianity have done. Mosques have never been decorated with religious pictures, nor has a pictorial art been employed for the instruction of the heathen or for the edification of the ...
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This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. [1] Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a major part of their body of work.
Other terms often used for art of various religions are cult image, usually for the main image in a place of worship, icon in its more general sense (not restricted to Eastern Orthodox images), and "devotional image" usually meaning a smaller image for private prayer or worship. Images can often be divided into "iconic images", just showing one ...