- Source: Robert Hillenbrand
Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09. He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.
In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand. In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.
Selected publications
Imperial Images in Persian Painting
Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (co-editor)
Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author)
Islamic Art and Architecture
The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols.)
Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998)
Curated Exhibition
Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)
References
External links
Robert Hillenbrand | University of St Andrews - Academia.edu
"The Past as Propaganda: The Mongol "World History"". YouTube. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 17 June 2011.
"The Old and New Testaments in Islamic Painting with Dr. Robert Hillenbrand". YouTube. Asian Art Museum. 1 October 2014.
"Prof. Robert Hillenbrand: 'Architecture in medieval Persian painting: fact or fantasy'". YouTube. The Iran Heritage Foundation. 1 March 2018.
"Robert Hillenbrand Presents Art of Narrative in the Great Mongol Book of Kings". YouTube. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 29 April 2020.