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Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh[1] and St Andrews.[2] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09.[3] He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.[4][5]

In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand.[6] In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.[7]

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.

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