Revealing the Unseen

Melanie Gibson is series editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Gwenaelle Fellinger is a senior curator in the Department of Islamic Art in the Louvre Museum, where she is in charge of the arts of the Qajar era, the Islamic West, textiles and carpets, and conservation. In 2018 she curated The Empire of Roses: Masterpieces of 19th Century Persian Art.

• Boozari, AliMirza Hassan bin Aqa Seyyed Mirza Isfahani: A Bridge Between the Elite and Popular Art in the Qajar Period Diba, LaylaAlternative Art Histories, Qajar Photography and Contemporary Iranian Art Gruber, ChristianeWithout Pen, Without Ink: The Practice of Khatt-i Nakhuni in the Qajar Period. Fellinger, GwenaelleShimmering mirages: 19th-century ikat velvets Maury, Charlotte et Guillaume, CarolArtists and patrons: comments about the 1644 album from the Golestan palace and the painter Mu?ammad Baqir Maktabi HadiPower and Wealth: Carpets as Diplomatic Gifts & Feudal Tribute under the Qajars Phillip, Filiz C.Chahar Ayna: Form, Function, and Decoration of an Enigmatic Iranian Armour Rettig, SimonThe Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Shahnama of Firdawsi: An early Qajar illustrated manuscript from Isfahan Stanley, TimRazi Taliqani and the struggle to keep illumination alive Szanto IvanPearls of Persian Painting at Random Strung in Eastern Europe Vasilyeva DariaIranian diplomatic gifts and trophies of 1820's in the State Hermitage Museum Voigt FriederickeFor close observation: imagery in the architecture of Qajar Iran

"Beautifully presented, this new book expands the current scholarship on Qajar art in many valuable directions." -- Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin