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David Roxburgh

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David J. Roxburgh is an art historian and one of the leading authorities on the visual and material culture of the pre-modern Islamic world. Since 2007 he has held the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professorship of Islamic Art History in the Department of...

Multiple Awards for Professor Roxburgh's "An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran"

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An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran , ed. David J. Roxburgh (Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven: Harvard Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 2017). Has won the following awards: 50 Books | 50 Covers (Selected as one of the 50 best...

Aga Khan Lecture Series: David Roxburgh "Vaulting Techniques in Iranian Islamic Architecture: An Unpublished Study by Myron Bement Smith and Doǧan Kuban"

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“ Vaulting Techniques in Iranian Islamic Architecture : An Unpublished Study by Myron Bement Smith and Doǧan Kuban” David J. Roxburgh Art, architecture, and archaeology played a new nation-building role in Iran among the modernizing reforms initiated by...

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HAA 100R - Sophomore Excursion Course

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David Roxburgh, Yukio Lippit This course introduces concentrators to on-site study of art and architecture through the case study of a particular geographic and cultural area. This year: Uzbekistan

"The Transformation of the Art Museum", Charles Saumarez Smith in conversation with Martha Tedeschi, moderated by David Roxburgh

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Register Here. Over the past year, the ongoing global pandemic has dramatically shifted our relationships to museum spaces and changed our understanding of what an art museum is and can be. In this lecture, Charles Saumarez Smith will consider some of the...

David Roxburgh: A Proliferation of Duplicates?: New Technologies of the Image in Qajar Iran

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HAA 229p

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Word and Image in Persian Painting David J. Roxburgh Monday 3-5:45pm Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key...

HAA 229P - Word and Image in Persian Painting: Seminar

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David Roxburgh Mondays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of...

Anti-Racist Statement from the Department of History of Art and Architecture (April 2021)

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A letter by David J. Roxburgh, Department Chair: Dear members of the HAA community, I am writing today about the rise in anti-Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander violence and hate crimes which reached a new height in the mass shootings in Atlanta...

HAA 11 - Landmarks of World Architecture

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Vishal Khandelwal, David Roxburgh Examines major works of world architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Faculty members will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, drawing from...

The Yarshater Lecture Series at SOAS, University of London

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Islamic Art Circle Lectures The Yarshater Lecture Series at SOAS 'In the Rays of Light of Imperial Favour': the Visual Arts of Early Fifteenth-Century Timurid Herat Professor David Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History...