Robert Hillenbrand

Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh[1] and St Andrews.[2] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008-09.[3] He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.[4][5]

Robert Hillenbrand - British scholar of Persian art

In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California (Irvine), the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand.[6] In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.[7]

Selected publications
  • Imperial Images in Persian Painting
  • Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (co-editor)
  • Islamic Architecture in North Africa (co-author)
  • Islamic Art and Architecture
  • The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An Introduction
  • Studies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols.)
  • Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning (translated into Persian in 1998)

Curated Exhibition
  • Imperial images of Persian painting : a Scottish Arts Council exhibition (1977)

References
  1. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/robert-hillenbrand
  2. https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/robert-hillenbrand(69ec3ab1-a210-4721-9ca7-92bafbabc163).html
  3. https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/aboutthedept/sladeprofs/sladeprofs/rh567@cam.ac.uk
  4. "Aspects of Art Lectures". The British Academy.
  5. Hillenbrand, Robert (2011). "Propaganda in the Mongol 'World History'". British Academy Review. 17: 29–38. audio
  6. https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/lifetimeAchievement
  7. http://www.taqkasra.com/2016/12/10/documentary-film/


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