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To: WPaCon

The Mongol conquest of the Chin, and then the Sung, led to a period in Chinese painting that principally focused on horses.

In the Il-Khanate of Persia, the ceramic and brickwork showed a marked Muslim influence. Interestingly, although the first Khanate to convert to Islam, the Golden Horde did not show such an influence.

The Chaggadids, ruling over a large population of Muslims also showed Islamic influence to a great degree, which increased under the Timurids.

The Toluids, up to the victory of Qublai Quan over his brother Arik Boka, remained largely animist, and showed few outside influences in their art.


8 posted on 04/01/2012 2:03:37 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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regarding the Ilkhanate -- the cart would be more correctly called Persian or Arabic in origin in the sense that the art forms depictred predated Islam.

"Christian" art is religious iconography or even one can call Gothic architecture as Christian because its thought process etc. was Christian in nature. islamic "art" is not possible due to the injuncts in the Koran --> unless one includes calligraphy. Islamic "architecture" on the other hands, to some extent yes in the later years when the synthesis of Indic, Iranic, Chinese, Arabic and Byzantine art forms came about, but derived from Islam, I would doubt

34 posted on 04/01/2012 11:00:49 PM PDT by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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