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Robert Hillenbrand - British scholar of Persian art

Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941)[1] is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh[2] and St Andrews.[3] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09.[4] He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.[5][6]

In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand.[7] In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Imperial Images in Persian Painting
  • Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (co-editor)
  • Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author)
  • Islamic Art and Architecture
  • The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
  • Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols.)
  • Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998)

Curated Exhibition[edit]

  • Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Profile of Robert Hillenbrand
  2. ^ "Robert Hillenbrand". The University of Edinburgh.
  3. ^ "Robert Hillenbrand - University of St Andrews". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Hillenbrand, Robert (3 May 2012). "Robert Hillenbrand FBA". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk.
  5. ^ "Aspects of Art Lectures". The British Academy.
  6. ^ Hillenbrand, Robert (2011). "Propaganda in the Mongol 'World History'". British Academy Review. 17: 29–38. audio
  7. ^ "The Lifetime Achievement Award | Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) | انجمن ایران‌ پژوهی". associationforiranianstudies.org.
  8. ^ "First-ever documentary on Taq Kasra "Wonder of Architecture" – Taq Kasra : 3rd-century Persian Monument in Iraq".

External links[edit]


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hillenbrand