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Title: The Arts of Persia
& Other Countries of Islam

Author: H. Kevorkian

Release Date: August 28, 2008 [EBook #26473]

Language: English

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SPECIAL EXHIBITION

THE ARTS OF PERSIA

& OTHER COUNTRIES OF ISLAM

H. KEVORKIAN COLLECTION

[Illustration]

FROM THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SECOND
TO SATURDAY, MAY FIFTEENTH, INCLUSIVE
ON THE ENTIRE THIRD FLOOR

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES
489 PARK AVENUE AT FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK
1926

THE ENTIRE THIRD FLOOR GALLERIES
FROM THURSDAY, APRIL TWENTY-SECOND
TO SATURDAY, MAY FIFTEENTH, INCLUSIVE
[OPEN WEEK-DAYS, 9-6; SUNDAYS, 2-5 P.M.]

* * * * *

[Illustration: STUCCO BAS-RELIEF, PAINTED IN POLYCHROME. EXCAVATED AT
RAY (RHAGES) ANTERIOR TO THE XIITH CENTURY]

This exhibition has been arranged with a desire to meet the
convenience of those who are interested in manifestations of the arts
of different countries over which ISLAM held sway at one time or other
in the past. An effort has been made to show under one roof
representative examples of works produced at different epochs and
stages of the civilizations referred to, so that they may be seen, and
perhaps studied, with the minimum expenditure of time.

Fine examples of many branches of the arts of these peoples are in
permanent exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the
museums of great cities throughout the country. It is difficult to
find adequate word