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Article: Heaven on earth.(Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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THE MOST IMPORTANT EXHIBITION OF Islamic art to be held in London for decades is dazzling London this spring and summer. Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands is a must-see, not only for its almost overwhelming opulence--Mughal jewels the size of golf balls--but because for the first time it brings an understanding to the general public of an apparently glaring contradiction in Islamic art. This is the contrast between the sumptuous luxury of court art, compared with the austere abstraction of art employed in a divine context.
Exhibits of heart-stopping beauty, exquisite minute detail and monumental grandeur are drawn from two collections that of Nasser ...