TRACES OF THE CALLIGRAPHER: ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY IN PRACTICE and WRITING THE WORD OF GOD: CALLIGRAPHY AND THE QUR’AN October 7, 2008–February 8, 2009 Organized by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Harvard University Art Museums. Curated by Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, at Harvard University. These two complementary exhibitions present examples of Islamic calligraphy, such as practice exercises, manuscripts, and folios from the Qur’an, along with the tools used to create these masterful works. Approximately 160 objects and works from an important private collection in Houston, from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museum, and the Morgan Library and Museum explore the social prestige associate with this elegant, esteemed art form and reveal the skills of the many artisans involved including calligraphers, paper makers, gold beaters, illuminators, bookbinders, and metalworkers. Traces of the Calligrapher maps the practice of the calligrapher from the 17th through 19th century, and includes objects from Iran, Turkey, and India. Writing the Word of God is devoted to key developments of the Islamic scripts of distinct cultural areas, spanning from Spain and North Africa to Greater Iran from the 7th to 15th century. Image Caption: Calligraphic composition in thuluth script, Iran, dated 1887–88
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