Medieval and Islamic art

Courses include:
Art H 250 Intro to Art History: Islamic Art and Culture
Art H 411 The Multi-Cultural Alhambra
Art H 422 The Late Medieval Devotional Image in Iberia
Art H 355 Romanesque and Early Gothic Art & Arch
Art H 356 Gothic & the Medieval World
Art H 495 Looking for Love: Visual & Literary Cultures of Love in the Medieval Mediterranean 1100-140 AD

Select Books:
Islamic Art and Literature ed. Cynthia Robinson and Oleg Grabar, Princeton Papers, Fall 2001

In Praise of Song: the Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1065-1135 A.D., Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002

Select Conferences:
November 2004:
"Interrogating Iberian Frontiers: A Cross-Disciplinary Research Symposium on Mudejar History, Religion, Art and Literature," organized with Maria J. Feliciano, with the collaboration of Profs. Ross Brann and Salah Hassan

Select Articles:
"Arts of the Taifa Kingdoms," Al-Andalus: The Islamic Arts of Spain, exhibition catalogue, ed. Jerrilynn D. Doods. NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry Abrams Inc., 1992

"Seeing Paradise: Metaphor and Vision in Taifa Palace Architecture ", Gesta XXXVI/2, 1998

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