Robert Hillenbrand
British art historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
- 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
- Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)
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