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  2. Persian calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Abol Atighetchi uses combination of colored naskh, suluth and kufic style calligraphy with large letters in a single large format acrylic painting for his work presentation and circles in gold leaf or simple color to decorate but in the Nastaligh style many colorful geometrical forms and lines are used to modernize the painting and the same technique is used to modernize the large format birds ...

  3. List of Persian calligraphers - Wikipedia

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    1 Old time Persian calligraphers. 2 Contemporary Iranian calligraphers. 3 See also. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance.

  4. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    Example reading "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form ڛ ‎ is used in place of س ‎.. Nastaliq (/ ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k /; [2], Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some ...

  5. Taliq script - Wikipedia

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    The taʿlīq (Persian: تعلیق, lit. 'hanging') script is a calligraphic hand in Islamic calligraphy typically used for official documents written in Persian.Literally meaning hanging or suspended script it emerged in the mid-13th century and was widely used, especially in chanceries of Iranian states, although from the early 16th century onward it lost ground to another hanging script, the ...

  6. Sarir Script - Wikipedia

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    Sarir was created by studying the form and space and Iranian calligraphy methods, especially classical Shekasteh Nastaʿlīq script, Chinese script, and Gothic script. Sarir can easily overcome some limitations of traditional Iranian calligraphy because in this new way of calligraphy, all angles of the pen can be used.

  7. Arts of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Median man in Persepolis Persian realist Gouache painting of the Qajar dynasty and soldiers in 1850-1851. The arts of Iran are one of the richest art heritages in world history and encompasses many traditional disciplines including architecture, painting, literature, music, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and stonemasonry.

  8. Muraqqa-e Gulshan - Wikipedia

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    The volume consists of facing pages of Persian calligraphy alternating with pages of illustration. [9] The illustrated pages have decorative margins which typically depict either landscapes with birds and scenes of the chase or different types of abstract scrollwork and vegetal designs, whereas the margins of the calligraphic pages often ...

  9. Mir Emad Hassani - Wikipedia

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    Mir Emad (born Emad al-Molk Qazvini Hasani (Persian: میرعماد حسنی قزوینی),‎ 1554 – August 15, 1615) is perhaps the most celebrated Persian calligrapher. He was born in Qazvin, Iran. It is believed that the Nastaʿlīq style reached its highest elegance in Mir Emad's works. [2]