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Mark Zebrowski

مارك زبروفسكي

American art historian, author of Deccani Painting (1983), who took up the subject while serving in the American Peace Corps near Hyderabad in 1968 1.

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Roles
Scholar
Region
Americas & Oceania

Arts of the book

Summary

Mark Zebrowski wrote Deccani Painting (1983). His acknowledgements recall that the idea of studying Indian painting came to him in 1968 while he was in the American Peace Corps near Hyderabad, Deccan, and that a meeting with Muhammad Ashraf of the Salar Jang Museum opened the world of the Deccani kingdoms to him. 2 1

Approach

He calls his book the first attempt to bring together all the major Deccani paintings — some two hundred important works, all published in it — and assign them to schools and artists; since Deccani paintings are rarely signed or dated, he names the great anonymous masters after the homes of their masterpieces: the Bikaner, Bodleian, Leningrad and Dublin painters. 3 4 5

People and things also explored

Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Ahmadnagar painting· Proportional script and the six pens (al-aqlam al-sitta)· Arabesque· Bijapur painting· Broken cursive (New Style)· Deccani painting· Divani script

Sources

  1. Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (London: Sotheby Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983) , p. 6
  2. Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (London: Sotheby Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983) , p. 4
  3. Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (London: Sotheby Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983) , p. 1
  4. Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (London: Sotheby Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983) , p. 10
  5. Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting (London: Sotheby Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983) , p. 12
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Abbasid tin-glazed ware

Ninth-century Iraqi pottery covered with an opaque white glaze made with tin oxide to resemble white Chinese ware, then painted in blue, green and purple or in lustre.