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| © Musée du Louvre/A. Neveux Leclerc |
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| Valérie de Wulf, Laure Goblet, Marie Lamaa, Simon Rettig, département des arts de l'Islam |
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This itinerary incorporates a number of exceptionally fine, often very rare works illustrating the particular characteristics of Islamic art. The masterpieces described here represent a 1000-year sweep of history across three continents.
The term "Islamic art" describes works of art produced throughout a broad geographic region, under Islamic rule, by artists and craftsmen who may have been Islamic by birth, converts to the faith, Jews or Christians. The museum's Islamic masterpieces demonstrate the extraordinarily diverse artistic output of the Islamic world, nourished by a rich vein of cross-cultural influences from the late Roman and Hellenistic worlds to China and, finally, western Europe (particularly through the activities of European diplomatic and trade missions to the East).
The free movement of artists, traders, and pilgrims throughout the Islamic world encouraged the dissemination and cross-fertilization of forms, techniques, ideas, and philosophies. This explains the sense of aesthetic cohesion underpinning the diverse regional styles of Islamic art, reinforced by the adoption of a common alphabet, from India to the Iberian Peninsula.
The works are grouped according to their function, period, and place of origin; the displays aim to provide an overview of the chronology and development of Islamic art as a whole, and of regional stylistic differences across the Islamic world.
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Go to Room 1. In vitrine 1, on the right-hand side of the room, look at item number 2.
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