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Catalogue raisonné des monuments exposés dans le Museé national de l'art arabe

Matḥaf al-Fann al-Islāmī (Cairo, Egypt) · 1906 · Le Caire : Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale · 4 pictures

A 1906 French catalogue raisonné of monuments in Cairo's Museum of Arab Art, produced by the museum's Islamic art collection for scholars and curators of Islamic art. The pictures are grey halftone photographs of carved stone, a tooled leather binding with interlaced medallions, a marble panel with scrolling foliage, and a gallery interior seen sideways, offering designers examples of Mamluk-era arabesque, geometric medallion and interlace patterns.

Art · Islamic art · Art -- Egypt -- Cairo

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