Fustat Ceramics: Islamic Art in Egypt. A study tour through the collections of the Louvre Museum and the National and University Library.
BNU / Louvre Museum / University of Strasbourg / Museum of Near and Middle Eastern Art and Archaeology in Strasbourg.| N° d'inventaire | 29477 |
| Format | 16 x 22 |
| Détails | 71 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Strasbourg, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782859230982 |
In the fall of 2021, the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum organized the operation entitled "Arts of Islam, a past for a present." This operation saw 18 cities in France combine their collections with those of the department to illustrate, through exhibitions intended for a very wide audience, the wide distribution of Islamic art objects in France, but also their importance both for the history of the collections and for their influence on local artistic and creative movements. The National and University Library and the University of Strasbourg were partners in this operation, via the exhibition The Unexpected Orient, from the Rhine to the Indus , directed by Nourane Ben Azzouna and Claude Lorentz, with the support of Yannick Lintz, then director of the department. The current three-year deposit at the Bnu of 53 ceramic fragments from Fustat in Egypt, preserved in the reserves of the Department of Islamic Arts, is a continuation of this program. It also participates in the prefiguration of the museum being prepared in Strasbourg, dedicated to the art and archaeology of the countries of the Near and Middle East.
While the history of Fustat and the variety of settings presented will certainly attract an audience of art and history lovers, this selection proposed by Carine Juvin will also reveal to the visitor the intensity of economic and cultural exchanges between this city on the banks of the Nile and the entire Islamic world, even as far as China. Enhanced with pieces from the Bnu collections, the space dedicated to this deposit is intended to be a fragment of a double story: that of this fabulous and cosmopolitan capital that was Fustat in the medieval period; that of the rediscovery, from the last decades of the 19th century and for almost a century of excavations, of this site of major importance for Islamic archaeology.
May this series of ceramics, usually kept in reserve, presented in this collection of booklet-catalogues, provide everyone with elements to better understand the diversity and richness of the arts of Islam.
In the fall of 2021, the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum organized the operation entitled "Arts of Islam, a past for a present." This operation saw 18 cities in France combine their collections with those of the department to illustrate, through exhibitions intended for a very wide audience, the wide distribution of Islamic art objects in France, but also their importance both for the history of the collections and for their influence on local artistic and creative movements. The National and University Library and the University of Strasbourg were partners in this operation, via the exhibition The Unexpected Orient, from the Rhine to the Indus , directed by Nourane Ben Azzouna and Claude Lorentz, with the support of Yannick Lintz, then director of the department. The current three-year deposit at the Bnu of 53 ceramic fragments from Fustat in Egypt, preserved in the reserves of the Department of Islamic Arts, is a continuation of this program. It also participates in the prefiguration of the museum being prepared in Strasbourg, dedicated to the art and archaeology of the countries of the Near and Middle East.
While the history of Fustat and the variety of settings presented will certainly attract an audience of art and history lovers, this selection proposed by Carine Juvin will also reveal to the visitor the intensity of economic and cultural exchanges between this city on the banks of the Nile and the entire Islamic world, even as far as China. Enhanced with pieces from the Bnu collections, the space dedicated to this deposit is intended to be a fragment of a double story: that of this fabulous and cosmopolitan capital that was Fustat in the medieval period; that of the rediscovery, from the last decades of the 19th century and for almost a century of excavations, of this site of major importance for Islamic archaeology.
May this series of ceramics, usually kept in reserve, presented in this collection of booklet-catalogues, provide everyone with elements to better understand the diversity and richness of the arts of Islam.