Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting

Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 449
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ISBN-10 : 9781474465632
ISBN-13 : 1474465633
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Download or read book Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting written by Stefano Carboni and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated study of Al-Qazwini's 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of a cosmographic encyclopedia entitled The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things, and the first-ever translations of the text into English.


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