
Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson
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LOCATION: London W8 6LP, United Kingdom
Former Deputy Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, London. Author of Persian Painting in the Fifteenth Century.
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Calligraphy, the art of beautiful handwriting. The term may derive from the Greek words for “beauty” (kallos) and “to write” (graphein). It implies a sure knowledge of the correct form of letters—i.e., the conventional signs by which language can be communicated—and the skill to make them with such…
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