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the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia and eastern Iran and the Mamluk rulers of Egypt and Syria. According to Tahera H. Tajbhai "his skillful designs makes his style immediately recognizable, signaling him out as one of the leading Veneto-Saracenic craftsmen. His style adopted new innovative style whilst still retaining elements of Mamluk tradition."
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Only 13 objects, 12 of which carry his full name and one without his nisba (the Kurd), have survived. They are preserved in the British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He usually signed his name on his pieces in Arabic and Latin script as
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The location of Mahmud's workshop is disputed. It is believed that he immigrated to Venice where he lived and set up a workshop in the second half of the 15th century and introduced oriental metalwork into Venice. However, some scholars have questioned the thesis that Muslim artists have worked in
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Mahmud's work include several stylistic sub-groups, which have in common the frequent use of European shapes combined with a new style of linear silver inlay displaying an unconventional style of arabesque. Their decoration displays affinities with that on metalwork made during the same period for
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Muslim brassworkers like Mu`allim Mahmud al - Kurdi, Zayn al - Din, and others who shortly after 1500 manufactured and signed ' all ' Azimina " vessels in Venice where, however, their style soon underwent a
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lands in eastern Anatolia or western Iran, while others argue that there is no visual evidence for a connection between the Veneto-Saracenic and Iranian or Aq Qoyunlu homologues, and they place his work in
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Some of the immortal names of those masters of art who came to Venice are Mahmud - al - Kurdi, Zainuddin ' Omar, Qasim, Habibullah - Ibn - Ali Baharjani and Alauddin Birjandi
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Mahmud al - Kurdi, the best known of the Iranian craftsmen recorded as active in Venice
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Mahmud is regarded as one of the founders of an artistic style which is termed
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artist, craftsman and designer of the late medieval era.
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Kurdish
Kurdish
Veneto-Saracenic
Venice
Aq Qoyunlu
Mamluk Sultanate
Mahmud the Kurd- Tray (Salver)
Mahmud the Kurd - Tray (Salver)
Mack Smith, Denis
Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600
ISBN
978-0-520-22131-4
Renaissance Venice, Islam and Mahmud the Kurd: A Metalworking Enigma
ISBN
978-1-901435-11-5
HALI: The International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles
Renaissance Venice, Islam and Mahmud the Kurd: A Metalworking Enigma
ISBN
978-1-901435-11-5
Essays in Honor of J.M. Rogers
ISBN
978-90-04-13964-0
"A Fearsome Beauty: Material and Cultural Exchange between Venice and the Islamic Near East"
Islamic Art and Archaeology: Collected Papers
ISBN
978-3-7861-1412-3
Influence of Islam on World Civilization
ISBN
978-969-407-164-0
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vol. set)

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