Arabic Art in Color

Arabic Art in Color is a digital download in English. This Dover Pictorial Archive selection is available for instant download after purchase.

Drawn from Prisse d’Avennes’s L’art arabe, it brings together plates focused on decorative ornament found in and around Cairo.

You can read it using compatible Kindle apps and other reading apps on mobile, tablet, or desktop.

Book Overview

From 1869 through 1877, the French art historian Prisse d’Avennes published L’art arabe, a collection of plates illustrating art treasures located in and around the city of Cairo, with a few comparison pieces from European collections. The publisher’s note describes Cairo as a major center of Islam, with mosques and palaces that contain architectural ornament, tiles, wood carvings, paintings on walls and ceilings, woven hangings, carpets, paper appliqués, and illuminated books.

This Dover Pictorial Archive selection includes 50 full-color plates that present 141 designs and motifs. The plates are presented as a grammar of Islamic decorative art, with motifs such as naturalistic florals, geometrical patterns based on hexagons, octagons, and dodecagons, Koran illuminations, animal vignettes, and spots and borders of many kinds.

According to the provided bibliographical note, the selection is drawn from specific source publications listed in the edition materials, and the publisher’s note and English-language captions were prepared specially for the present edition.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• 50 full-color plates selected from Prisse d’Avennes’s L’art arabe and related source volumes.
• 141 designs and motifs presented as a grammar of Islamic decorative art.
• Naturalistic florals and geometrical patterns based on hexagons, octagons, and dodecagons.
• Koran illuminations, animal vignettes, and varied spots and border designs.
• Decorative motifs spanning from the twelfth century to the eighteenth.

Why This Book Matters

This selection offers a structured visual reference for Islamic decorative ornament as seen in Cairo’s artistic settings. The publisher’s note frames the original publication as uncovering material that had been “hitherto neglected and unknown.”

For artists, designers, and researchers, the plates are organized to support direct study of motifs, patterns, and ornament types across multiple decorative forms.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This product is a digital download. There is no physical shipping.

Access is available after purchase, and the file works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop, mobile, or reading apps.

No printing is promised or required.

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• When can I access the book? After purchase, you can download and access the file instantly.
• Is there a physical copy? No. This listing is for a digital download.
• Will it work on my device? It should work with suitable Kindle apps and common reading apps on mobile, tablet, and desktop.

If you’re building references for Islamic decorative design, Arabic Art in Color offers a color-plate selection focused on motifs and ornament.

Download it and review the plates at your own pace.

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