Ink, Silk and Gold

Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ink, Silk, and Gold presents nearly one hundred works of Islamic art spanning the eighth to the twenty-first centuries from the impressive collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This exhibition offers a chronological and regional story of the dynamic and complex artistic traditions originating from across the vast expanse of the Islamic world—Spain to Indonesia—and represents almost all forms of media, including silver inlaid metalwork, Qur’an pages inscribed with gold, brocaded velvets and luster-painted ceramics. More than 130 years after the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston began collecting Islamic art, this exhibition marks the first time these objects have been comprehensively studied, restored and presented to the public.

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