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Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941) is a British
Robert Hillenbrand , University of St Andrews - Academia.edu
* * * * Living people 1941 births Fellows of the British Academy British art historians Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Oxford Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Cambridge) Historians of Islamic art {{UK-art-historian-stub
Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941) is a British art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
who specialises in Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
and Islamic art
Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations. Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide ra ...
. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
and St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fou ...
. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art
The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London.
History
The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collecto ...
at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09. He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.
In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand. In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...
.
Selected publications
* ''Imperial Images in Persian Painting'' * ''Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia'' (co-editor) * ''Islamic Architecture in North Africa'' (co-author) * ''Islamic Art and Architecture'' * ''The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction'' * ''Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture'' (2 vols.) * ''Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning'' (translated into Persian in 1998)Curated Exhibition
* ''Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition'' (1977)References
External links
Robert Hillenbrand , University of St Andrews - Academia.edu
* * * * Living people 1941 births Fellows of the British Academy British art historians Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Oxford Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Cambridge) Historians of Islamic art {{UK-art-historian-stub