La ceramica islamica

Alastair Hull, José Luczyc-Wyhowsa
Mondadori Electa

Roberto Borali
Burgo editore

Olga A. Polyakova
Vivay Publishing

We are proud to offer this important book on icons dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. These sixty icons from the Kolomenskoye State Museum are presented with full descriptions of their origins and symbolic meanings written by a leading specialist in Old Russian art. This lesser-known collection shows the evolution and development of Russian iconography through its themes, styles and details - for example, historical figures such as Peter the Great featured in the battlefield on one of the intercession icons. These images are at once powerful and moving, engaging the observer in the story depicted in the painting or drawing the eye to a face that seems to look directly out at the viewer. This book provides a fascinating insight into the world of the mysterious and beautiful icons. Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art is a valuable resource for art historians, scholars of religious practice, and collectors of icons.

Kurt Zipper, Claudia Fritzsche, Uwe Jourdan
Sonzogno Editore

John Hedgecoe, Salmá Samar Damlūjī
Garnet Publishing Limited

Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics represents an outstanding photographic record of Moroccan ceramics and cut tiles, with written contributions from leading art historians and architects specialising in these fields. Photographer John Hedgecoe and the editor Salma Samar Damluji were given unprecedented access to Morocco's finest buildings, including Royal Palaces, and to private and state museum collections. Through the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in Morocco, a unique book on one of the world's great forms of art has been created. It was through the art of zillij, intricate cut-tile patterns, that Moroccan craftsmen achieved their most sophisticated expression of precision, spatial geometry and aesthetics. This book is a careful study of the achievements of those craftsmen in the art of zillij. It is also, as importantly, an investigation into the relationship of zillij designs to ceramics, which present the designs or a new scale and with a new function. Zillij: The Art of Moroccan Ceramics is essential to the library of all those interested, either professionally or otherwise, in architecture, design ceramics, Islamic and decorative arts.

Giovanni Pesce
Edizioni Luigi Alfieri

AA.VV.
Paris Musées

Francesco Morena
Silvana Editoriale

J. J. Marquet de Vasselot, M. J. Ballot
Édition Albert Morancé

AA. VV.
Andromeda Multimedia

Vito Pinto
Cassa di risparmio Salernitana

Giovanni Pesce
Edizioni Luigi Alfieri