Between the Caspian Sea and the Chinese frontier, Central Asia, with its ancient cities and its monuments that date back millennia, has seen the rise and fall of numerous civilizations. lavishly illustrated, this book offers a look at beautiful constructions: mosques, mausoleums, madrasahs, and minarets, that rival each other in their rich ornamentation of polychrome faience and ceramics of unique turquoise blue.
Although the cultures of the different people of Central Asia have long been marked by Hellenism, it is the Islamic religion above all that inspired the Uzbek architects of Tachkent or the blue city of Samarkand, pearl of the Silk Road. If this architecture surprises with its grandeur and beauty, the arts called minor also reveal a world of refinement. Indo-buddhic, Chinese, Persian, Scythian and Mongolian influences have marked the works of Tadjik sculptors, which regularly include geometric, floral, and animal motifs. This books magnificent photographs allow us to discover this art which saw its apogee under the reign of Tamerlane.
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