Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen

by Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair

With a history spanning some fourteen centuries, Islamic art is one of the world's great artistic traditions, although it largely eschews such familiar art forms as painting on canvas and monumental sculpture. Cosmophilia is the catalog of an exhibition of 123 examples of the finest examples of Islamic art from the C. L. David Collection in Copenhagen, Denmark shown in 2006 at the McMullen Museum at Boston College and soon to travel to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892850117
• ISBN13: 9781892850119
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 12.0"