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IG_251: Title Page Studie über Namen und Entstehung der Kunst der Völker des Islam, 1894
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Title

Studie über Namen und Entstehung der Kunst der Völker des Islam

Type of Object
Artist / Producer
Franz, Julius · Author
Dating
1894
Research Project
Author and Date of Entry
Franziska Niemand 2025

Iconography

Description

This text by Julius Franz, which appeared in an Austrian monthly journal on the ‘Orient’ published by the k. k. Österreichisches Handels-Museum in Vienna, presents his study of the names and origins of the art of the peoples of Islam. Although the text is only seven and a half pages long, Franz devotes some paragraphs to the glass and stucco window.
Franz J. (1894), Studie über Namen und Entstehung der Kunst der Völker des Islam. Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient, 6–7, 73–80.

Materials, Technique and State of Preservation

Technique

Book printing.

History

Research

Franz gives a short description of the qamariyya in terms of technique, typology, light effect within an architectural setting, and a vague date for its first use.
From a technical point of view, Franz describes the ‘Kamerîje’ as a cast, thin plate of gypsum, sculpted when not yet completely hardened, and covered with coloured glass in the openwork areas. From a typological point of view, he describes the ‘Kamerîje’ as window lattices with interlacing patterns , floral ornament, and inscriptions (Franz, 1894, p. 78). The effect of their light on the interiors—floors, walls, sculpted ceiling decorations, carpets—is decribed as ‘truly magical’ (Franz, 1894, p. 78). Franz suspects that small pieces of coloured glass may have been attached to window lattices as far back as Fatimid times. He imagines that such windows were variations of the open window lattices in the Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun (Franz, 1894, p. 78).
The technique and development of stucco and glass windows is already described in Franz’s pioneering monograph Die Baukunst des Islam, which was published as part of the Handbuch der Architektur (Architecture Handbook) series of 1887; a second extended edition appeared in 1896 (IG_66).

Dating
1894
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Bibliography and Sources

Literature

Franz J. (1894), Studie über Namen und Entstehung der Kunst der Völker des Islam. Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient, 6–7, 73–80.

Pflugradt-Abdel Aziz, E. (2013). Julius Franz-Pasha’s Die Baukunst des Islam (Islamic architecture) of 1887 as part of the Manual of Architecture. In M. Volait (Ed.), Le Caire dessiné et photographié au XIXe siècle (pp. 297–310). Picard.

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MISC_IG_Franz_1894_IG_251

Citation suggestion

Niemand, F. (2025). Studie über Namen und Entstehung der Kunst der Völker des Islam. In Vitrosearch. Retrieved July 1, 2025 from https://test.vitrosearch.ch/objects/2713095.

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IG_251