Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

11/1/1971 - 4/30/1972

Funding Totals

$5,200.00 (approved)
$5,200.00 (awarded)


Sogdian Painting: The Traditions of Sacred and Profane Art in Central Asia

FAIN: RO-11009-71

Unaffiliated independent scholar
G. Azarpay (Project Director: November 1971 to present)

To complete a study of stylistic and idealogical trends in early Medieval paintings from Central Asia with emphasis on the pre-Islamic school of wall painting of A.D. V-VIII century in Transoxiana.