Description: The five Diez albums in Berlin are an important source for the study of Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid art. The 21 essays of this book contribute to deepening our understanding of the development of Persianate art and its perception in later times.
Review Quotes: "The book is a testament to the importance of collaboration among scholars with different types of expertise (historians, art historians and chemists; specialists of Islamic and Chinese art, Ottomanists and Persianists; scholars from diffrent generations) and multiple approaches to the history of art. Together these twenty-two scholars finally do justice to the complex history and contents of the famous Diez albums, making them comprehensible to the scholarly community." - Emine Fetvaci, Boston University, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95/2 (2018)