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Rettig, Simon

Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery staff

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

    • Rettig, Simon. 2021. "Persian Tomb Cover." Manual: a journal about art and its making, 15 16–17. 2021
  • Book

    • Farhad, Massumeh, McWilliams, Mary, and Rettig, Simon. 2017. A Collector's Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer. Freer and Sackler and Harvard Art Museums. 2017
  • Chapter

    • Rettig, Simon. 2021. "Illustrating Firdawsi's Book of Kings in the Early Qajar Era: The Case of the Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Shahnama." In Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art. Fellinger, Gwenaëlle A., Guillaume, Carol, and Gibson, Melanie, editors. 42–55. London, England: Gingko. 2021
    • Rettig, Simon. 2016. "A 'Timurid-like response' to the Qur'an of Gwalior? Manuscript W563 at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore." In Le coran de Gwalior: Polysémies d'un manuscrit à peintures. Burési, Monique and Brac de la Perrière, Éloïse, editors. 191–205. Paris: Éditions de Boccard. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvbqs3d9.16. 2016
    • Rettig, Simon. 2016. "Ja'far Tabrizi, “Second Inventor” of the Nasta'līq Script, and the Diez Albums." In The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents. Gonnella, Julia, Weis, Friederike, and Rauch, Christoph, editors. 194–217. Leiden/Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004323483_008. 2016
    • Rettig, Simon. 2016. "Shaping the Word of God: Visual Codifications of the Qur'an between 1000 and 1700." In The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Farhad, Massumeh and Rettig, Simon, editors. 76–97. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2016

Editor Of

  • Book

    • Rettig, Simon and Mirza, Sana, editors. 2023. The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.21948098. 2023
    • Farhad, Massumeh and Rettig, Simon, editors. 2016. The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2016

Presentations

  • Presentation

    • Rettig, Simon. 2021. Made at the Request of Baysunghur? Exploring the Timurid Interventions in the Freer Khusraw-u Shirin [presentation]. Prince Baysunghur, Before & After: Timurid Manuscripts in Context, Persian Manuscripts Association Inaugural Symposium, November 6, 2021. Online via Zoom: The Persian Manuscripts Association (PMA).

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