Islamic painting is a special exhibition organized by Dr. Ernst Grube, Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York comprising nearly 150 significant paintings and drawings on loan from the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the City art Museum of St. Louis, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan NuSeuir of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Pierpont Horgan Library, the Princeton University Library, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Wiilian Hayes Fogg Art Museum and the William Rockhill Xelson Gallery of Art. The purpose of the exhibition is to provide an insight , into the distinctive character and ideology of the Islamic world and its artistic heritage. While historic in its organization, its basic concept involves the imaginative values now emerging as major issues in the changing culture of our times. To this end a synposium of visiting scolars, faculty and graduate students is being held under the joint sponsorship of the School of Art and the Department of Religion with the cooperation of the Humanities Lecture Committee and the Center for International Programs and Services of the University of the State of New York. The symposium features three distinguished scholars in the field of Islamic Art professor Ernst Grube of Columbia University and the Metropolitan Museum of Professor , Richard Ettinghausen of New York University and Yne Freer Gallery of Art, Washington,...

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