Robert Hillenbrand


Robert Hillenbrand FBA is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09. He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture.
In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand. In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.

Selected publications

Imperial Images in Persian PaintingArt and Archaeology of Ancient Persia Islamic Architecture in North Africa Islamic Art and ArchitectureThe Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem: An IntroductionStudies in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture
  • ''Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning''

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