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Personal Statement
Doctor in Islamic Arts History with an expertise on pre-modern Iran and India, I hold a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University, defended in December 2015 with the highest honours. I have been involved in research and teaching for a decade and work currently as an independent writer, art advisor and podcast host.
Research Topics
- History of Islamic Arts
- Pre-modern Iran (Safavid; Zand; Afshar)
- Mughal India
- Arts of the book; Muraqqa’; Codicology
- Artistic exchanges between Europe and the Islamic world
- Botanical Arts ; Flower painting
- Market of Islamic Art
Education
Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne University, Islamic Arts History (2010-2015)
Persian and Indian Flower Paintings during the Modern Era (16th-18th c.)
Under the supervision of Pr. Jean-Piere Van Staëvel and Pr. Eloïse Brac de la Perrière
Mention Très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité
M.A., Paris-Sorbonne University, Islamic Arts History (2008-2010)
Under the supervision of Pr. Jean-Piere Van Staëvel and Pr. Eloïse Brac de la Perrière
Mention Très bien
B.A., Paris-Sorbonne University, Arts History (2005-2008)
Publications
Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral margins in the muraqqā’-s of Antoine Polier
F. Weiss (ed), Eighteenth-century Persianate Albums Made in India, Brill, forthcoming
Patronage and Productions of Paintings and Albums in 18th century Awadh
Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 12(2), 2021, pp. 174-201
available here
Homme d’Orient, Homme d’Occident, masculinité et virilité entre Iran et Europe au XVIIe siècle
Horizons du masculin – Pour un imaginaire du genre, Paris, Classique Garnier, 2020, pp. 307-325
available here
In the Mist of the Aftermath: Trade and Conservation Practices of Pre-Modern Syrian Art
Islamic World of Art, 5 (winter 2019)
available here
Un exotisme à l’orientale ? Les apports européens dans la peinture de fleurs persane et indienne (XVIe-XVIIIe s.)
Le Verger, 8 (2014)
available here
La commande européenne de Muraqqa’ indiens: Les collections Gentil, Johnson, Polier et Clive
“Art et politique”, Carnet de l’Ecole Doctorale Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (2011)
available here
Art Market and Conservation
Freelance Islamic art expertise: research, writing, communication
(since 2018)
- Rosebery’s London, 28 April 2023
- Ader, Paris – 10 March 2023
- Ader, Paris – 10 February 2023
- Millon, Paris – 13 December 2022
- Millon, Paris – 3 December 2019
- Millon, Paris – 3 December 2018
- Millon, Paris – 3 May 2018
- Pierre Bergé, Paris – 9 June 2011
Cité de la céramique, Sèvres: Inventory and documentation on the Indian ceramics collection
(2012)
Marie-Christine David Expertises, Islamic arts expertise: research assistant
(2010-2011)
Edition
Le Monde de L’imprimé v. 1470 – v. 1680
Co-edition of Le Verger, 21 (Jan. 2021)
available here
Temps et espaces du Voyage à la Renaissance
Co-edition of Le Verger, 12 (Sept. 2017)
available here
L’exotisme à la Renaissance
Co-edition of Le Verger, 8 (Sept 2015)
available here
Research Programs
Tradition manuscrite et transmission iconographique : Les manuscrits à peintures des Kalila wa Dimna
(2012-2017)
Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Sorbonne University,
Directed by Dr Eloïse Brac de la Perrière and Dr Annie Vernay-Nouri
- Research on later Indian copies of Kalīla wa Dimna (18th -19th c.)
- Participation in a research workshop held on 29th November 2013
- Co-organisation of an exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe: Paroles de bêtes (à l’usage des Princes), Les Fables de Kalila wa Dimna (15th Sept. 2015 -3rd Jan. 2016)
- Research on Imam Bakhsh Lahori and 19th century Indian painting
Autour du Coran de Gwalior : Polysémie d’un manuscrit à peintures
(2008-2012)
Paris-Sorbonne University and Aga Khan Collection
Directed by Dr. Eloïse Brac de la Perrière
- Research on Indian productions of Qur’an during the 14th and 15th centuries
- Coordination between research team members
Organisation of Symposiums and Conferences
Materiality of travels during the Modern Era
Château de Chantilly, in partnership between Cornucopia and the Alexandre Koyré Center
(June 2016)
Witchcraft during the Reformation
Chorea seminar organised for the association Cornucopia, Paris-Sorbonne University
(Winter 2015)
Hunting in Renaissance Literature, History and Art
Chorea seminar organised for the association Cornucopia, Paris-Sorbonne University
(Spring 2015)
Questioning the language in Art History
Doctoral Seminar, in association between Paris-Sorbonne University and Pantheon-Sorbonne University
(2011-2012)
Teaching
Guest Lecturer
SOAS, London
(2022)
Teaching Assistant
Sorbonne University, department of Art History
(2014/2015)
Guest Lecturer
Paris College of Art
(2014/2015)
Graduate Supervision
Ecole des Arts et de la Culture, Paris
(2014/2015)
Adjunct Lecturer
Ecole des Arts et de la Culture, Paris
(2013/2014 – 2014/2015)
Papers, Public Speaking
The Rose and the Brush: Flower Paintings in India and Persia and their Connexion to European Botanical Illustration (16th-18th centuries)
Lunchtime Lecture Series: Churches Conservation Trust, online, 8 December 2022
Shafī’ ‘Abbāsī et les gravures d’ornement : un exemple d’échanges artistiques entre l’Occident chrétien et l’Iran au XVIIe siècle
Workshop: “Cartier et les Arts de l’Islam”, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 3 February 2021
Eighteenth-century Persianate Albums me in India: Audiences, Artists, Patrons, Collections
International workshop, Museum fur Asiatische Kunst, Museum fur Islamische Kunst, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 15-17 September 2021
De Damas à New York : réflexions sur les enjeux du commerce de la céramique architecturale islamique
4e Congrès sur les études sur le Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
Le jardin persan : de Cyrus le Grand à Shah Jahan
Le Castelet Association, Castelnaudary, February 2016
Relations culturelles entre Iran, Inde et Europe à l’époque moderne
Université du Temps Libre, Noisy-le-Grand, November 2015
Something old and Something borrowed : Persian Flower Paintings during the 17th century
Societas Iranologica Europaea: Eight European Conference of Iranian Studies, St. Petersburg, September 2015
Jardins réels, jardins rêvés en Iran et Inde à la Renaissance
Pierre de Ronsard and Cornucopia associations: conference on Les jardins en Orient et en Occident à la Renaissance, Couture-sur-Loir, June 2015
Les peintures de fleurs en Iran et en Inde durant la période moderne : entre Orient et Occident
Sorbonne University, Master degree seminar, March 2015
La botanique pour l’art : les peintures de fleurs naturalistes en Iran safavide et Inde moghole (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Sorbonne University, Doctoral Day, January 2015
Homme d’Orient, Homme d’Occident : virilité et masculinité en Iran au XVIe siècle
Chorea seminar, Cornucopia association, Sorbonne University, November 2014
Les apports européens dans la peinture de fleurs persane et indienne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Chorea seminar, Cornucopia association, Sorbonne University, October 2013
De la discussion jaillit la lumière : histoire et art de l’Inde islamique (VIIe-XIXe siècles)
Association Culturelle du Razes, Montréal de l’Aude, May 2013
Le peintre et la rose : les peintures de fleurs de Shafi’ ‘Abbasi
Doctoral seminar in Islamic art and archaeology, Sorbonne University, April 2012
Le patronage européen d’albums de peintures indiennes au XVIIIe siècle : essai d’interprétation
Doctoral day, Sorbonne University, May 2011
Les sources iconographiques du nomadisme en Asie centrale : Le témoignage de Siyah Qalam
Doctoral seminar in Islamic art and archaeology, Sorbonne University, May 2011
The Dreamed Orient of collectors: Reception of Turkish, Persian and Indian albums in Europe
First Symposium of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, April 2011