For a long period, manuscripts were the only place in the Islamicate world where you could find painting. In the ERC project GLOBAL DECO PAPER, Ilse Sturkenboom, Professor of Islamic Art History at LMU Munich, is seeking to understand the early-modern history of Islamicate arts of the book from a perspective that has thus far not been considered: the border… Decorated Paper in the Early-Modern Islamicate World: Aesthetics, Techniques and Meaning in Global Contexts weiterlesen