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Persian art or Iranian art (Persian: هنر ایرانی, romanized: Honar-è Irâni) has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in many media including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and sculpture.
Many of these wall paintings depicted landscapes derived from both Persian and Chinese artistic traditions. [13] While the subject matter of these paintings was borrowed from other cultures, Timurid wall paintings were eventually refined into their own, unique style. [14] Mongol artistic traditions were not entirely phased out, as the highly ...
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.
Turkman style is a style in Persian miniature painting that emerged in the late 15th-century. The British art scholar Basil William Robinson coined the term in the 1950s to differentiate this style from a more polished style made in courts of Timurid and Turkman rulers.
Mirror Hall (Persian: تالار آینه tālār-e āyeneh) is an oil on canvas painting by Iranian realist painter Kamal-ol-Molk, his first work since receiving the title Kamal-ol-Molk ("Perfection of the Realm"). [1] [2] It is considered one of his masterpieces, and marks a starting point in Iran's modern art. [3] [4]
"Bahram Gor with the Indian Princess," Mohammad Zaman, 1675/76 [1]. Farangi-Sazi (Persian: فرنگیسازی, lit. 'making in an Occidental manner') was a style of Persian painting that originated in Safavid Iran in the second half of the 17th century.
Surviving Sassanid art depicts courtly and chivalric scenes, with considerable grandeur of style, reflecting the lavish life and display of the Sassanid court as recorded by Byzantine ambassadors. Images of rulers dominate many of the surviving works, though none are as large as the Colossal Statue of Shapur I. Hunting and battle scenes enjoyed ...
Yusuf and Zulaikha (Joseph chased by Potiphar's wife), by Behzād, 1488. A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa.