Virtual Lecture | What’s “Islamic” about Islamic Art? (Part 2 of 3)
Turkish, Tondino, first half of 16th century, stonepaste, polychrome painted under transparent glaze, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by His Highness the Aga Khan Shia Ismaili Community of Houston, The Levant Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Akbar Ladjevardian, The Francis L. Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer; Marathon Oil Company, Mr. and Mrs. Omar Rehmatulla, Strategic Real Estate Advisors, London, Monsour Taghdisi, His Excellency Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al Thani, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the 2007 Art of the Islamic Worlds Gala, the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, and the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund.
Stephennie Mulder
The MFAH presents a three-part series of lectures on the arts and cultures of the Ancient Near East and Islamic lands. Specialists from the field of Islamic art give talks on pre-Islamic, early Islamic, and later Islamic periods.
“What’s ‘Islamic’ about Islamic Art? Expanding the Traditional Boundaries of Art History”
(Part 2 of 3) Speaker: Stephennie Mulder, associate professor of Islamic art and architecture, the University of Texas at Austin.
Live via Zoom / Friday, May 14, 2021
• See information about part 3, on May 15, here.
This lecture receives generous funding from the Levant Foundation and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, in partnership with Art of the Islamic Worlds at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.