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
edit- 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
edit- Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)
References
edit- ^ Profile of Robert Hillenbrand
- ^ "Robert Hillenbrand". The University of Edinburgh. 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Robert Hillenbrand - University of St Andrews". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk.
- ^ Hillenbrand, Robert (3 May 2012). "Robert Hillenbrand FBA". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ "Aspects of Art Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ Hillenbrand, Robert (2011). "Propaganda in the Mongol 'World History'". British Academy Review. 17: 29–38. audio
- ^ "The Lifetime Achievement Award | Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) | انجمن ایران پژوهی". associationforiranianstudies.org.
- ^ "First-ever documentary on Taq Kasra "Wonder of Architecture" – Taq Kasra : 3rd-century Persian Monument in Iraq". 10 December 2016.
External links
edit- Robert Hillenbrand | University of St Andrews - Academia.edu
- "The Past as Propaganda: The Mongol "World History"". YouTube. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 17 June 2011.
- "The Old and New Testaments in Islamic Painting with Dr. Robert Hillenbrand". YouTube. Asian Art Museum. 1 October 2014.
- "Prof. Robert Hillenbrand: 'Architecture in medieval Persian painting: fact or fantasy'". YouTube. The Iran Heritage Foundation. 1 March 2018.
- "Robert Hillenbrand Presents Art of Narrative in the Great Mongol Book of Kings". YouTube. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 29 April 2020.
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