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Qusayr ‘Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Garth Fowden
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| #2296715 in Books | 2004-09-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.94 x6.14l,1.78 | File type: PDF | 419 pages|||"Three features make this book remarkable. First, its scholarship is impeccable, unusually broad, and complete. Second, its author has a clear story to tell. Third, it illuminates the world of Late Antiquity, which is only now beginning to be understood." - Ol
From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mir...
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