Formal expression for sculptures and paintings Between Islamic Art and Art of the Ancient Near East


Abstract in English

Research sheds light on aspects Similar to express formal each of Islamic Art and Art Ancient Near East, where reflected these aspects in many technical features formalism, Iterance, and symmetry, transparency and perspective and the absence of shadow and light, as well as other features that can be previewed in the artistic to the arts . Despite the temporal and geographical disparities and intellectual between civilizations of the ancient Near East and the Islamic civilization, there are several objective factors that played varying roles influence in the case of these similarities. The most prominent of these factors is the obvious similarity in climatic and environmental characteristics that originated those civilizations, as well as the friction factor resulting from mutual rivalry and migrations between the peoples of this region, in addition to the cultural succession between these arts on the one hand, and Islamic art from the second hand. Where he played all of Sassanid art and Byzantine art as a mediator between these arts and Islamic art, due to these tow arts had been influenced by the arts of the ancient Near East.

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الألفي، أبو صالح، الفن الإسلامي، دار المعارف، ط 2 لبنان.

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