The Painted History of Carpets
CHRISTIES
UNITED KINGDOM - William Robinson, Christie's International Specialist Head of Islamic Art and Carpets, finds two rare Islamic carpets in portraits from Cowdray Park. Added as decoration and to underline the sitter’s wealth by the artist at the time of painting, these now provide a hugely valuable source of information for the history of carpet making. Contemporary Islamic miniatures did not aim for pictorial accuracy, so European pictures that include accurately represented carpets are absolutely vital to today’s understanding and chronology of carpets – known as tapetology. [link]
UNITED KINGDOM - William Robinson, Christie's International Specialist Head of Islamic Art and Carpets, finds two rare Islamic carpets in portraits from Cowdray Park. Added as decoration and to underline the sitter’s wealth by the artist at the time of painting, these now provide a hugely valuable source of information for the history of carpet making. Contemporary Islamic miniatures did not aim for pictorial accuracy, so European pictures that include accurately represented carpets are absolutely vital to today’s understanding and chronology of carpets – known as tapetology. [link]
