The Khalili Collections
The Khalili Collections refers collectively to eight distinct art collections assembled by Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili over a five-decade period. Together, the Collections comprise some 35,000 works of art. Each collection is on its own merit the largest and most comprehensive of its kind (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10):
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Islamic Art from 700 to 2000
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Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage from 700 to 2000
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Aramaic Documents from 353BC to 324 BC
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Japanese Art of the Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912
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Japanese Kimono from 1700 to 2000
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Swedish Textiles from 1700 to 1900
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Spanish Damascene Metalwork from 1850 to 1900
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Enamels of the World from 1700 to 2000
A documentary covering the Collections titled Sleeping Giants was broadcast on Sky Arts in 2017 (1).
Collections
Islamic Art (700-2000)
The Khalili Collections holds one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Islamic art (2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10). The Nasser D. Khalili Collections of Islamic Art includes 28,000 objects documenting arts from Islamic lands over a period of almost 1400 years. The Collection includes manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an, rare and illustrated manuscripts, album paintings, decorative arts of miniature paintings, bookbindings, lacquer, ceramics, glass and rock crystal, metalwork, scientific instruments, arms and armour, jewellery, carpets and textiles, coins and architectural elements.
Highlights include a 13th century saddle believed to belong to Gengiz Khan or one of his generals, an astrolabe commissioned by Shah Jahan (1648–58 AD), 10 folios the Shahnameh made for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1520 AD) and Rashid-al-Din’s world history, or Jami al-tawarikh (1314 AD).
Exhibitions drawing exclusively from the collection have been held at Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam as well as at many other museums and institutions worldwide.
The Wall Street Journal has said that it is the greatest collection of Islamic Art in existence (2). According to Edward Gibbs, Chairman of Middle East and India at Sotheby’s, it is certainly the best collection in private hands (3) and that the value of the collection is inestimable (4).
Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage (700-2000)
Alongside the Topkapı Palace museum, the collection is considered the largest and most significant group of objects relating to the cultural history of the Hajj (5). It holds objects and archival documents from all over the Islamic world, from the Umayyad period to the 21stcentury. It includes over 300 textiles and many other objects such as coins, medals, miniatures, manuscripts and photographs relating to Mecca and Medina. In total, the collection contains approximately 5,000 objects.
Highlights include a mahmal (AH 1067 (AD 1656–7)) commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV coverings for the door of the Kaaba curtains for the mosque of the Prophet in Medina, covering for the Station of Abraham, the earliest known accurate eyewitness account of Mecca and some of the earliest photographs taken of Mecca and the Hajj by Sadiq Bey.
Aramaic Documents (535BC-324BC)
The Collection comprises 48 historically significant Aramaic documents from Ancient Bactria, consisting of mainly letters and accounts related to the court of the satrap of Bactria. Together these letters and accounts make up the oldest known correspondence of the administration of Bactria and Sogdiana. The documents, written in Official Aramaic, were likely to originate from the historical city of Balkh and all are dated within a period of less than 30 years, between 353BC to 324BC. The newest of the documents were written during Alexander the Great’s early reign in the region.
Highlights include the first known document referring to Alexander the Great that uses the form ‘Alexandros’ (‘Iksndrs’), which he later became known as.
Japanese Art of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)
The Collection of Meiji decorative arts is only comparable as acknowledged by many scholars and museum directors, in terms of quality and size to the collection of the Japanese Imperial family (6). It comprises over 1,400 pieces, including metalwork, enamels, lacquer, textiles and ceramics. The Meiji period saw a cultural revolution in Japan where traditional tastes were met with international ones. Since the beginning of Emperor Meiji’s reign in Japan, European and international collectors have avidly sought pieces of Japanese art from this era. Many works in the collections were produced by Imperial Court artists and were exhibited at the Great Exhibitions of the late 19thcentury.
Highlights include works by imperial court artists Shibata Zeshin, Namikawa Yasuyuki, Makuzi Kozan, Yabu Meizan, Kano Natsuo, Suzuki Chokichi and Shirayama Shosai.
Exhibitions drawing exclusively from the collection have been held at the British Museum, Israel Museum, Van Gogh, Portland Museum, Moscow Kremlin Museums, and at many other museums and institutions worldwide.
Japanese Kimono (1700-2000)
The Collection represents three hundred years of the Japanese textile industry and contains over 450 garments. While the kimono’s T-shaped design hasn’t altered much over the centuries, the Collection reveals an astonishing variety of designs. The garments have been worn to demonstrate gender, age, status and wealth throughout Japan’s history. The core of the Collection is made up of kimono from the Edo (1603-1868), Meiji (1868-1912), Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa (1926-1989) eras.
Swedish Textiles (1700-1900)
The Collection comprises mostly of textile panels, cushion and bed covers from the Scania region of southern Sweden, dating in the main from a hundred year old period of the mid-18thto mid-19thcenturies. The majority of the pieces in the Collection were made for wedding ceremonies in the region. While they played a part in the ceremonies, they were also a reflection of the artistry and skill of the weaver. Their designs often consist of symbolic illustrations of fertility and long life, inspiring a sense of hope and joy. The entire collection is made up of 100 pieces.
Exhibitions drawing exclusively from the collection have been held at the Swedish Cultural Institute in Paris and Boston University Art Gallery and the.
Spanish Damascene Metalwork (1850-1900)
One of the largest collections of its kind, the Spanish Metalwork Collection pays homage to the Zuloaga family, which played a major part in the preservation of damascening in Spain. The Collection contains some of the most important pieces created by Plácido Zuloaga between 1834-1910. Some of the pieces, such as a giant iron cassone, were originally acquired by the great 19th-century English collector, Alfred Morrison. The entire collection comprises of over 100 pieces, 22 of which are signed by Plácido Zuloga. The collection is said to be one of the best representations of Spanish metalwork art during the latter half of the 19th century.
At the opening of the Khalili Zuloago exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, its then Director Alan Borg said ‘it was a landmark in the study of 19thcentury Spanish decorative art’, (7). Other exhibitions also drawing exclusively from the collection have been held at the Also Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao and Alhambra Palace in Granada to name a few.
Enamels of the World (1700-2000)
The Collection consists of over 1300 pieces and showcases the global significance and evolution of enamelling of enamelling. The uniqueness of the Collection lies in its geographic, artistic and historical range. Highlights include the enamelled chariot belonging to the Indian Maharaja of Bhavnagarand a painted enamel throne table with the seal mark of the 18thcentury Chinese Qianlong emperor. Other objects include presentation chargers, jewellery, miniatures and ornamental pieces.
At the 2009-10 Enamels of the world exhibition held at the State Hermitage Museum, its Director Mikhail Piotrovsky said ‘unique in its scope, the Collection reveals the remarkable technical achievements of the enamallers and encourages a greater awareness of the range of their activity.’ (8)
Research and Publication
The Khalili Collections will be fully represented in a series of over 100 books, including exhibition catalogues, of which over 70 have already been published. The total costs associated with the conservation, research, scholarship and publication of the Collections is estimated to be in the tens of millions of pounds.
List of Khalili Publications
· The Abbasid Tradition: Qur’ans of the 8th to the 10th centuries (Volume 1) 1992
· The Master Scribes: Qur’ans of the 10th to 14th centuries (Volume 2) 1992
· After Timur: Qur’ans of the 15th and 16th centuries (Volume 3) 1992
· The Decorated Word: Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th centuries (Volume 4) 1999 · The Decorated Word: Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th centuries (Volume 5) 2009 · The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries (Volume 6) 1996 · Bills, Letters and Deeds: Arabic Papyri of the 7th to 11th Centuries (Volume 7) 1993 · Learning, Piety and Poetry: Manuscripts from the Islamic world (Volume 8) 2019 · Paintings from India (Volume 9) 1998 · Cobalt and Lustre: The first centuries of Islamic pottery (Volume IX) 1994 · A Rival to China: Later Islamic pottery (2019) · A Rival to China: Later Islamic pottery (Volume X) 2019 · Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands (Volume XI) 2019 · Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands (Volume XI, Part 2) 2019 · Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands (Volume XI, Part 3) 2019 · Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands (Volume XI, Part 4) 2019 · Science, Tools & Magic: Part One - Body and Spirit Mapping the Universe (Volume XII, Part 1) 1997 · Science, Tools & Magic: Part Two - Mundane Worlds (Volume XII, Part 2) 1997 · Seals and Talismans (Volume XIII, Part 1) 2020 · Seals and Talismans (Volume XIII, Part 2) 2020 · Textiles, Carpets and Costumes (Volume XIV, Part 1) 2019 · Textiles, Carpets and Costumes (Volume XIV, Part 2) 2019 · Glass: From Sasanian antecedents to European imitations (Volume XV) 2005 · Ornament and Amulet: Rings of the Islamic Lands (Volume XVI) 1993 · The Art of Adornment: Jewellery of the Islamic lands (Volume XVII, Part 1) 2013 · The Art of Adornment: Jewellery of the Islamic lands (Volume XVII, Part 2) 2013 · Gems and Jewels of Mughal India: Jewelled and enamelled objects from the 16th to 20th centuries (Volume XVIII) 2010 · Dinars and Dirhams: Coins of the Islamic lands (Volume XIX, Part 1) 2019 · Dinars and Dirhams: Coins of the Islamic lands (Volume XIX, Part 2) 2019 · The Arts of War: Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th centuries (Volume XXI) 1992 · Lacquer of the Islamic Lands (Volume XXII, Part 1) 1996 · Lacquer of the Islamic Lands (Volume XXII, Part 2) 1997 · Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century (Volume XXIII) 1997 · Monuments and Memorials: Carvings and tile work from the Islamic world (Volume XXIV) 2020 · The Tale and the Image Part One: History and epic paintings from Iran and Turkey (Volume XXV) 2019 · The Tale and the Image Part Two: Illustrated manuscripts and album paintings from Iran, Turkey and Egypt (Volume XXVI) 2019 · A Compendium of Chronicles Rashid al-Din’s illustrated history of the world (Volume XXVII) 1995 · The Khalili Portolan Atlas Facsimile edition with text: Piri Reis and Turkish mapmaking after Columbus, 1992 · The Khalili Falnamah, 2019 · Turcoman Jewellery, 2020 · Selected Arabic Papyri (Volume 1), 1992 · Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmaking after Columbus (Volume 2), 1996 · Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan Part I: Legal and economic documents, 2012 · Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan Part II: Letters and Buddhist texts, 2007 · Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan - Part III: Plates, 2012 · Arab-Byzantine Coinage (Volume VI) 2005 · Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan (Volume V) 2007 · Hajj and The Arts of Pilgrimage (A Series of 10 Volumes) 2020 · Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria (Fourth Century BCE.) 2012 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Selected Essays (Volume I) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Metalwork (Volume II, Part 1) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Metalwork (Volume II, Part 2) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Enamel (Volume III) 1994 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Lacquer, Part One (Volume IV) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan: Lacquer, Part Two (Volume IV) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan Ceramics - Part One: Porcelain (Volume V) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan Ceramics - Part Two: Porcelain (Volume V) 1995 · Meiji No Takara – Treasures of Imperial Japan Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin (Volume VI) 1996 · Japonisme and the rise of the modern art movement: The Arts of the Meiji period (2013) · Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion (English edition) 2015 · Kimonos: L’art Japonais des motifs et des couleurs (French edition) 2015 · Kimono: L’arte del bello nella cultura giapponese (Italian edition) 2016 · Images of Culture: Japanese kimono 1915–1950 in the Khalili Collections, 2019 · Swedish Textile Art: Traditional Marriage Weavings from Scania (1996) · The Art and Tradition of the Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection (1997) · Enamels of the World 1700-2000 (2009)
List of Authors and Contributors
Islamic art
General editor:
Dr Julian Raby – Director of the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; leading authority on Islamic art
Editorial board:
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili, Professor J.M. Rogers, Ralph Pinder-Wilson †, B.W. Robinson †, Robert Skelton, Nahla Nassar, Tim Stanley, Dr Rebecca M. Foote, Dr Pedro Moura Carvalho, Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Authors and contributors:
Rudolf Abraham
Former Deputy Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London
David Alexander
Former Research Associate, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; specialist in Islamic arms and armour
Manijeh Bayani
Specialist in Persian and Arabic epigraphy; contributor to most of the catalogues in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art series
Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Former Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in Mamluk arts and history
Professor Sheila S. Blair
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts; specialist in Persian arts
Dr François de Blois
Senior Research Associate, University College London; specialist in Semitic and Iranian languages and on the history of religions in the Near East in pre-modern times
Christopher Cavey
Former Curator, Gemmological Association of Great Britain collections and member of its governing council; special interest in the history of gemstones
Nada Chaldecott
Art historian with a special interest in the arts of Central Asia and India
Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Deputy Curator and In-House Editor, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; Islamic art historian with a specialisation in Mughal art, architecture and material culture
Henrietta Sharp Cockrell
Former specialist in the Islamic Art Department, Christie’s, South Kensington, London
Dr Steven Cohen
Independent textile historian, researcher, lecturer and writer specialising in the carpets and textiles of the Indian subcontinent
Professor Anna Contadini
Professor of the History of Islamic Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in Islamic works on paper
Georgette Cornu †
Specialist in the technical analysis of textiles from the Arab world
Mitchell Abdul Karim Crites
Art historian whose research primarily focuses on Mughal art, architecture and garden design; instrumental in a major revival of Indian and Islamic arts and cra s across West and South Asia
Jacqueline Coulter
Formerly a Senior Director at Sotheby’s, London; specializes in carpets and textiles of the Islamic world
Professor Walter B. Denny
Professor of Islamic Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate in Oriental Carpets, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; specialist in Ottoman arts and Islamic carpets and textiles
Professor François Déroche
Fellow of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Director of Studies, Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris; specialist in early Qur’ans and the history of the handwritten book in the Islamic world
Dr Layla Diba
Former Director, Negarestan Museum, Tehran; former Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; independent curator and art advisor, with a special interest in the arts and culture of Qajar and modern Iran
Shireen Ellinger
Special interest in art and architecture of the Mamluk period, especially textiles and metalwork
Dr Rebecca M. Foote
Head of Publications, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; specialist in early Islamic archaeology
Deborah Freeman
Former Assistant Curator, Al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait; specialist in Arabic and Persian manuscripts
Dr Melanie Gibson
Participates in a range of academic activities that include teaching and publishing; series editor of the Gingko Library Art Series; specialist in ceramics and glass of the Islamic world
Dr Sidney M. Goldstein
Former Associate Director, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri; specialist in early Islamic glass
Dr Javad Golmohammadi
Former Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Tehran University; independent Islamic art historian based in London working on a publication on wooden religious buildings and carved woodwork of Islamic Iran
Tony Goodwin
Specialist in Byzantine and Islamic coinage of the 7th century
Hero Granger-Taylor
Historian of early textiles, London; recent work centres on excavated nds, particularly from desert sites in Egypt and the Near East
Professor Ernst J. Grube † Professor Emeritus in the History of Islamic Art, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Venice; rst Curator of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; specialist in Islamic painting and ceramics
Dr Rosalind Wade Haddon
Researcher on the Samarra Finds Project, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; specialist in Islamic ceramics of the 14th century
Stephen Hirtenstein
Publications Director, Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society; co-founder of Anqa Publishing; specialist in the life, thought and writings of Ibn ‘Arabi
Rahul Jain
Textile researcher and historian, New Delhi; specialist in technical and historical aspects of the Indian drawloom, the woven silks of Sultanate India, as well as court velvets, sashes and luxury fabrics of Mughal India
Dr David James †
Former Islamic Curator, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; specialist in manuscripts of the Qur’an
Professor Ludvik Kalus
Honorary Professor of the History of the Medieval East, University of Paris-Sorbonne; founder and director of the Thesaurus of Islamic Epigraphy project; specialist in Arabic epigraphy
Dr. Doron Lurie
Senior Curator, 16th-19th Century Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr Derek Kennet
Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University; archaeologist working in India and the Middle East
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili
Founder of the Khalili Collections; Honorary Fellow of the University of London; Visiting Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Professor Geoffrey Khan
Fellow of the British Academy; Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge University; elds of expertise include Arabic papyrology
Dr Mark G. Kramarovsky
Senior Researcher, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; archaeologist in the Crimea and authority on the arts of the Golden Horde
Dr Jens Kröger
Former Curator, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin; specialist in Islamic glass
Dr Linda York Leach †
Specialist in Indian painting; author of a major catalogue of the Indian paintings in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Mary McWilliams
Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; specialist in Safavid textiles
Francis Maddison †
Former Curator, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford; specialist in scienti c instruments and their makers
Roberta Marin
Assistant Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; tutor of the post-graduate Diploma in Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Marielle Martiniani-Reber
Chief Curator, Applied Arts Department, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva; special interest in textiles of the Arab world
Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam
Curator and research assistant at the Victoria and Albert Museum; specialist in calligraphy and painting from Iran and South Asia up to the 19th century
Dr Peter Morgan
Former Director, British Institute of Persian Studies, Iran; research interests include Ilkhanid ceramics
Dr Pedro Moura Carvalho
Former Deputy Director, Art and Programs, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; specialist in Mughal art and European contributions to the arts of India, Iran, Japan and China post 1500
Nahla Nassar
Curator and Registrar, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and the Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection; special interest in the history of Islamic pilgrimage-related textiles
Professor Alastair Northedge
Professor of Islamic art and architecture, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris; archaeologist specialising in early Islamic material culture
Dr Jack Ogden
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; former Chief Executive, Gemmological Association of Great Britain; specialist in the historical development of jewellery materials and techniques
Dr Alison Ohta
Director, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; specialist in the technique and ornament of Mamluk bookbinding
Dr Rachel Parikh
Currently the Calderwood Curatorial Fellow of South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums; specialist in South Asian and Islamic works on paper as well as arms and armour
Ralph Pinder-Wilson †
Former Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, London; specialist in the arts of Iran, India and Afghanistan
B.W. Robinson †
Former Fellow of the British Academy; former Keeper of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; specialist in Islamic painting and the arts of Qajar Iran
Professor J.M. Rogers
Fellow of the British Academy; Honorary Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; Former Deputy Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, London; inaugural Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in many aspects of Islamic culture and history, especially Seljuk and Ottoman arts
Dr Martina Rugiadi
Assistant Curator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; specialist in Ghaznavid stonework
Dr Nabil F. Safwat
Former Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in Islamic calligraphy and the arts of the book
Professor Emilie Savage-Smith
Fellow of the British Academy; Professor of the History of Islamic Science, Oxford University; specialist in Islamic science, medicine and magic
Dr Emily Shovelton
Independent researcher and lecturer, currently tutor for the Islamic Art module at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; specialist in illustrated Persian and Indo-Persian manuscripts
Dr Eleanor Sims
Editor, Islamic Art for the East-West Foundation, New York (originally Co-editor with her late husband, Professor Ernst J. Grube); special expertise is eastern Islamic painting
Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams
Fellow of the British Academy; Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in Middle Iranian languages of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, including Sogdian and Bactrian
Robert Skelton
Former Keeper of the Indian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; specialist in the arts of India
Milton Sonday
Former Curator of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; specialist in the structures and continuous patterns of textiles of all cultures
Professor Svat Soucek
Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University, New Jersey; specialist in historical cartography
Michael Spink
Independent researcher, lecturer and writer on Islamic and Indian art; Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain
Tim Stanley
Senior Curator, Middle Eastern collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; specialist in Islamic manuscript production, calligraphy and the decorative arts and has a longstanding interest in Ottoman culture
Professor Wheeler M. Thackston
Professor Emeritus of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dr Cristina Tonghini
Lecturer in the History of Islamic Art, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Venice; archaeologist in Syria and specialist in its Islamic ceramics
Dr Elena Tsareva
Leading researcher, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg; specialist in textiles and costume of northern Eurasia
Dr Aram R. Vardanyan
Curator of Islamic coins in the History Museum of Armenia as well as a senior scienti c researcher in the Institute of Oriental Studies NAS in Yerevan; specialist in Islamic coinage and history
Dr Stephen Vernoit
Former Assistant Professor, Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco; former Lecturer, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University; specialist in the art and cultural history of the Islamic world in the 17th–20th centuries
Marie-France Vivier
Head of the Magreb section, Musée du quai Branly, Paris; specialist in North African textiles
Dr Marian Wenzel †
Islamic art historian with a special interest in Islamic jewellery
Dr Elaine Wright
Curator of the Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; specialist in Islamic manuscript production
Mohamed Zakariya
Distinguished contemporary calligrapher, now working in Washington, D.C.
Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage
Qaisra Khan
Independent curator; Joint editor of ‘Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage’ in the Khalili Collections
Curator and Registrar, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and the Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Collection; special interest in the history of Islamic pilgrimage-related textiles
Dr Venetia Porter
Curator, Department of the Middle East, British Museum, London
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili
Founder The Khalili Collections Honorary Fellow of the University of London; Visiting Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Dr Bilal Badat
Dr Sami De Giosa
Ms Shireen el Kassem
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili
Mr Seif El Rashidi
Dr Sabiha Gologlu
Professor Alastair Hamilton
Dr Edmund Hayes
Ms Qaisra Khan
Dr Jan Loop
Dr Michael Christopher Low
Dr Sergio Carro Martín
Professor Ulrich Marzolph
Professsor Richard McGregor
Dr Luitgard Mols
Dr Harry Munt
Ms Nahla Nassar
Mr James Nicholson
Mr Seif el Rashidi
Mr Yousuf Saeed
Mr Saarthak Singh
Dr John Slight
Dr Mehmet Tütüncü
Dr Aram Vardanyan
Dr Arnoud Vrolijk
Dr Muhammad Isa Waley
Dr Peter Webb
Mr Michael Wolfe
Aramaic Documents
Joseph Naveh †
Former Professor Emiritus of West Semitic epigraphy and palaeography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Shaul Shaked
Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Japanese art of the Meiji period
Joint editors: Dr Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley
Svetlana Amelekhina
Head of the Textile Department at the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Tayfun Belgin
Director of the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
John House
former Emeritus Professor, Courtauld Institute, London
Dr Oliver Impey †
Senior Curator, Ashmolean Museum; Reader in Japanese Art, University of Oxford
Malcolm Fairley
Formerly of Sotheby’s and Barry Davies Oriental Art; now co-owner of the Asian Art Gallery, London
Matthi Forrer
Curator for Japanese Arts at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili
Founder The Khalili Collections Honorary Fellow of the University of London; Visiting Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Feodor Pan lov
Researcher at the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Axel Rüger
Director of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Kris Schiermeier
Director of the Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, the Netherlands
Hiroko Yokomizo
Associate Professor (Curator), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Honorary Advisers
Dr Barbara Ford
Associate Curator of the Department of Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
B.W. Robinson †
Former Keeper of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Lawrence Smith
Former Keeper of the Department of Japanese Antiquities, British Museum, London
Dr Gunhild Avitable
Director of the Japan Society Gallery, New York; former Curator of Far Eastern Art, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt-am-Main
Ellen P. Conant
Independent art historian, New York
Joe Earle
Senior Consultant for Japanese Works of Art, Bonhams, London; former Director of the Japan Society Gallery, New York and Chair of the Department of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Dror Elkvity
Curator of the Japanese, Enamel, Spanish, Swedish and Aramaic collections
Dr Rupert Faulkner
Senior Curator, Japan, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Goke Tadaomi
Former Professor, Faculty of Domestic Sciences, Kyoritsu Women’s University
Victor Harris †
Former Keeper of the Department of Japanese antiquities at the British Museum, London
Hida Toyojiro
President, Akita University of Arts; Curator, Cra s Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Jack Hillier †
Renowned art historian and author of many publications on Japanese art
Dr Janet Hunter
Saji Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics
Julia Hutt
Curator, Japan, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Greg Irvine
Honorary Curator of the Japanese art of the Meiji period in the Khalili Collection; Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Anna Jackson
Keeper of the Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Major Andrew Keelan
Former Chief Coordinator of the Khalili Collection
Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili
Founder The Khalili Collections Honorary Fellow of the University of London; Visiting Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Clare Pollard
Curator of Japanese Art, Department of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; former art historian and Curator of the East Asian collections at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Sato Doshin
Former Professor of Japanese art history, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
Vibeke Woldbye
Former Curator, Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen
Edward Wrangham †
Author and collector of Japanese lacquer specialising in inro
Yamazaki Tsuyoshi
Professor of History and Cra , Kanazawa University of Arts; former Curator at the Fine Arts Division of the Agency for Cultural A airs of Japan; former Curator, Osaka City Museum
Japanese Kimono
Dr. Jacqueline M. Atkins
Art historian with a special interest in Japanese textile history
Professor Kendall Brown
Professor of Asian Art, California State University, Long Beach
Dr Christine Guth
Asian Specialism Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
Professor Iwao Nagasaki
Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo
Anna Jackson
Keeper of the Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Professor Timon Screech
Professor of the History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Swedish textiles
Viveka Hansen
Sti elsen Institutet for Kulturforskning, IK Foundation
Spanish Damascene
Dr James D. Lavin †
Former Professor of Spanish, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Ramiro Larrañaga †
Former master engraver and damascener; Basque historian and author
Claude Blair †
Leading authority on European armour
Enamels of the World
Julia Clarke
Deputy Director and Senior Specialist, Objects of Vertu, Sotheby’s
Tatiana Fabergé
Member of the Fabergé Heritage Council, and great- granddaughter of Peter Carl Fabergé
Malcolm Fairley
Formerly of Sotheby’s and Barry Davies Oriental Art; now co-owner of the Asian Art Gallery, London
Dr Oliver Impey †
Senior Curator, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Reader in Japanese Art, University of Oxford
Rose Kerr
Former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Daniela Mascetti
Senior Director, International Senior Specialist, Jewellery, Sotheby’s
Dr Pedro Moura Carvalho
Former Deputy Director, Art and Programs, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; specialist in Mughal art and European contributions to the arts of India, Iran, Japan and China post 1500
Dr Jack Ogden
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; former Chief Executive, Gemmological Association of Great Britain; specialist in the historical development of jewellery materials and techniques
Professor J.M. Rogers
Fellow of the British Academy; Honorary Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art; Former Deputy Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, London; inaugural Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; specialist in many aspects of Islamic culture and history, especially Seljuk and Ottoman arts
Haydn Williams
Former Head of Portrait Miniatures, Objects of Vertu and Russian works of art, Sotheby’s
† Deceased
Exhibitions
International exhibitions drawn exclusively from the Khalili Collections
Islamic art
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
- July–Sep 1995 Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
- July – Oct 1996 Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
- Dec 1996 – June 1997 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Feb – Apr 2000 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Marvels of the East: Indian Paintings of the Mughal Period from the Khalili Collection
- May–July 2000,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
- July – Oct 2000 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Oct 2000 – Jan 2001 Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Jan – Apr 2001 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Aug – Oct 2001 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Oct 2001–Jan 2002 Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Feb–Apr 2002 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- May – July 2002 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Aug 2002–Jan 2003 Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Ornements de la Perse: Islamic Patterns in 19th Century Europe
- Oct–Dec 2002 Leighton House Museum, London, UK
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection
- Feb – Apr 2003 Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- May – Aug 2003 Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Aug – Nov 2003 Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, USA
- Nov 2003–Feb 2004 Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D. Khalili Collection
- June – Sep 2007 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Jan – May 2008 Gallery One, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Oct 2009 – Mar 2010 Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France
Passion for Perfection: Islamic Art from the Khalili Collection
- Dec 2010 – Apr 2011 Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Japanese Art
Japanese Imperial Craftsmen: Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection
- Sep 1994 – Jan 1995 British Museum, London, UK
Treasures of Imperial Japan: Ceramics from the Khalili Collection
- Oct 1994 – Jan 1995 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Shibata Zeshin: Masterpieces of Japanese Lacquer from the Khalili Collection
- Apr – Oct 1997 National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan
- Apr – Oct 1999 First USA Riverfront Arts Centre, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Shibata Zeshin: Masterpieces of Japanese Lacquer from the Khalili Collection
- Oct – Nov 1999 Toyama Sato Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
- Nov 2000 – Mar 2001 Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection
- June – Sep 2002 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
Splendors of Imperial Japan: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection
- Sep 2004 – Feb 2005 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Wonders of Imperial Japan: Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection
- July – Oct 2006 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Meiji-Kunst & Japonismus: Aus der Sammlung Khalili
- Feb – June 2007 Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Beyond Imagination: Treasures of Imperial Japan from The Khalili Collection, 19th to early 20th century
- July – October 2017 Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow, Russia
Spanish Damascene Metalwork
Plácido Zuloaga: Spanish Treasures from The Khalili Collection
- May 1997 – Jan 1998 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
El Arte y Tradición de los Zuloaga: Damasquinado Español de la Colección Khalili
- May–Aug 2000 Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
- Feb – Apr 2001 Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain
- May – Sep 2001 Real Fundacion de Toledo, Toledo, Spain
Plácido Zuloaga: Meisterwerke in gold, silber und eisen damaszener–schmiedekunst aus der Khalili-Sammlung
- Apr – Aug 2003 Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Metal Magic: Spanish Treasures from the Khalili Collection
- Nov 2011 – Apr 2012 Auberge de Provence, Valletta, Malta
Swedish Textiles
Swedish Textile Art: The Khalili Collection
- Feb–Mar 1996 IK Foundation, Pildammarnas Vattentorn, Malmo, Sweden
Textiles de Scanie des XVIII et XIX Siècles dans la Collection Khalili
- Mar – May 2000 Swedish Cultural Centre, Paris, France
A Monument to Love: Swedish Marriage Textiles from the Khalili Collection
- Sep – Oct 2003 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Enamels of the World
Enamels of the World 1700–2000 from the Khalili Collection
- Dec 2009 – Apr 2010 State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Loans to museums and galleries
Jan – Apr 1992 Jüdische Lebenswelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Nov 1993 – Mar 1994 Worlds Beyond: Death and Afterlife in Art, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK Oct – Nov 1997 The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy (a touring exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council),Royal College of Art, London, UK June – Sep 1998 Corps à vif: art etanatomie, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland Oct 1998 – Jan 1999 Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785–1925, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Feb – May 1999 Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785–1925, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, USA July – Sep 1999 Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785–1925, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London,UK Nov 1999 – Feb 2000 Orakel: Der Blikin die Zukunft, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland Dec 1999 – Apr 2000 Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: The Art of Islam,Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands May – Oct 2000 La Beauté in natura, Avignon, France June 2000 – Sep 2001 Earthly Art, Heavenly Beauty: The Art of Islam, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Sep 2000 – June 2001 Have a Nargileh: Water-pipes from the Islamic World, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Sep 2000 – Feb 2001 Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, River Front Arts Center, Wilmington, Delaware, USA Jan –Mar 2001 Court and Conquest: Ottoman Origins and the Design for Handel’s “Tamerlano” at the Glimmer glass Opera, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK Oct 2001 – Apr 2002 Pearls: A Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA Oct 2001 – May 2002 Spirit Of Islam: Experiencing Islam through Calligraphy, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Oct 2001 – Mar 2002 L’Orient de Saladin au temps des Ayyubides, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France July – Nov 2002 The Nature of Diamonds, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan, USA June 2002 – Jan 2003 Pearls: A Natural History, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA Oct 2002 – Feb 2003 The Legacy Of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Nov 2002 – Mar 2003 Chevaux et cavaliers arabes dans les arts d’orient et d’occident, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Nov 2002 – Apr 2003 The Art of Love: Love’s Lust and Sorrow in World Art, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Switzerland Apr – July 2003 The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Oct 2003 – Jan 2004 Hunt for Paradise: Court Art of Safavid Iran, 1501–76, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York, USA Mar – June 2004 A caccia in Paradiso: Arte di corte nella Persia del Cinquencento, Museo Poldi Pezzoli and Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Mar – Aug 2004 Heaven on Earth: Art From Islamic Lands – Selected objects from the Khalili Collection and The State Hermitage Museum, Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, UK June – Sep 2004 Goa and the Great Mughal, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,Lisbon, Portugal Oct – Dec 2004 Asia, Body, Mind, Spirit, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental andAfrican Studies, London, UK Oct 2004 –Jan 2005 Asian Games: The Art of Contest, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York, USA Nov 2004 – Mar 2005 The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany Dec 2004 – Apr 2005 Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade and Innovation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA Feb – May 2005 Asian Games: The Art of Contest, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA Apr – Aug2005 The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Sep – Dec 2005 Asian Games: The Art of Contest, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA Oct 2005 –Mar 2006 L’Aged’or des sciences arabes, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France May – Sep 2006 Ibn Khaldun, The Mediterranean in the 14th century: Rise and Fall of Empires,Real Alcazar, Seville, Spain Sep 2006 – Feb 2007 East-West: Objects Between Cultures, Tate Britain, London, UK Oct 2006 – Feb 2007 Venise et l’Orient 828 – 1797, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Mar – July 2007 Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World, 828 – 1797, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA July – Nov 2007 Venezia e l’Islam 828 – 1797, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy Feb – June 2009 Shah ‘Abbas: The remaking of Iran, British Museum, London, UK Mar – Jun 2010 The Indian Portrait: 1560–1860, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Sep 2010 – Jan 2011 Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Mellon Gallery, Fitzwil- liam Museum, Cambridge, UK Oct 2010 – Mar 2011 Al-Mizan: Sciences and Arts in the Islamic World, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, UK Dec 2010 – Feb 2011 India’s Fabled City: The Artof Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Jul – Sep 2010 Kyoto–Tokyo: from Samurai to Manga,Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Apr – July 2011 Une cour royale en Inde: Lucknow (XVIIIème –XIXème siècle), Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France June – Sep 2011 Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Oct 2011 – Jan 2012 Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA Jan – Apr 2012 Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, British Museum, London, UK Mar – June 2012 Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar Sep – Dec 2012 Bronze, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Sep 2013 – Mar 2014 Longing for Mecca: The Pilgrim’s Journey, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands Oct – Dec 2013 The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK Feb – May 2014 Court and Craft in Medieval Mosul: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK Mar – Jun 2014 Kings and Pawns: Board Games from India to Spain, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar Apr – Jul 2014 India: Jewels that enchanted the world, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow, Russia Apr – Aug 2014 Hajj: le pèlerinage à La Mecque, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Sep 2014 – Jan 2015 Sacred Places, Sacred Books, Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium Sep 2014 – Jan 2015 Ming: 50 Years that changed China, British Museum, London, UK Oct 2015 – Jan 2016 The Fabric of India, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Apr –Sep 2016 Jardins d’Orient: De l’Alhambra au Taj Mahal, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Apr – July 2016 Court & Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Apr – Aug 2016 Sicily:culture and conquest, British Museum, London, UK Sep 2016 – Jan 2017 Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Oct 2016 –Jan 2017 Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK Nov 2016 – Feb 2017 Aventuriers des mers: de Sindbad à Marco Polo. Méditeranée – Océan Indien, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France Apr – July 2017 Trésors de l’Islam en Afrique de Tomboctou à Zanzibar, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France June – Oct 2017 Aventuriers des mers: de Sindbad à Marco Nov Polo. Méditeranée – Océan Indien, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), Marseiile, France Sep 2017 – Mar2 018 Hajj: Memories of a Journey, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE Oct 2018 –Jan 2019 Splendours of Imperial Japan, Guimet Museum, Paris, France Oct 2018 – Jan 2019 Fabric of India, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Oct 2018 – Feb 2019 Relieken, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, The Netherlands Feb 2019 – Jan 2020 Longing for Mecca, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Digitisation
Khalili Digitisation Project
Over a period of three decades, the Khalili Collections has undergone a major digitisation project in order to make the Collections more accessible to the general public. The majority of the approximately 35,000 works in the collections have been photographed (and in some cases filmed) in high definition; these digital assets are sued for a variety of projects such as publication and catalogues, exhibitions, websites, social media campaigns and other digital initiatives.
Google Arts and Culture
In 2018, the Khalili Collections partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to optimise its digitisation project and to launch its own page on the Google Arts and Culture platform, planned for launch in 2019. The Khalili Collections is exploring a number of projects with Google on how to leverage the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-definition technology to optimise the digital experience relating to its collections.
REFERENCES:
1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HC5hmABcAQ
2 – Andrew Mckie, From an article: The British Museum’s Pilgrimage, The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2012
3 -Edward Gibbs, Chairman, Sotheby’s Middle East and India, June 2014
4 – Letter from Edward Gibbs, Chairman, Middle East and India, Sotheby’s, London June 2006
5 – Edward Gibbs, Chairman, Sotheby’s Middle East and India, June 2014
+ Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of SOAS, University of London, Holy Makkah, A Celebration of Unity (First, 2017)
+ Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO, Holy Makkah, A Celebration of Unity, (First, 2017)
6 – Dr. Helena Gagarina, General Director Moscow Kremlin Museums – Extract from the forward of the catalogue, Beyond Imagination Treasures of Imperial Japan from the Khalili Collection 19th to Early 20th centuries, July 2017
+ Museums by John Russell Taylor, The Times, 12 November 1994
7 – Dr Alan Borg, Director, Victoria & Albert Museum, on the occasion of the opening of the Zuloaga exhibition, 1997
8 – Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, December 2009
9 – Edmund Capon, AM,OBE, Director NSW Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2007
10 – William Green, Bloomberg Magazine, May 2010
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