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The National Museum of Iran (Persian: موزهٔ ملی ایران Mūze-ye Melli-ye Irān) is located in Tehran, Iran. It is an institution formed of two museums; the Museum of Ancient Iran and the Museum of the Islamic Era, which were opened in 1937 and 1972, respectively. The institution hosts historical monuments dating back through ...
The Museum of Ancient Iran is located at the western part of Mashhq Square in Tehran, Iran. It was designed by André Godard by the order of Ali-Asghar Hekmat, then Minister of Education of Pahlavi Iran. Two Iranian master builders, Ostad Morad Tabrizi and Abbas Ali Memar, constructed the building. [1] Construction of the museum was started in ...
Tehran, Iran. Nationality. Iranian. Known for. Painting, sculptor, Set Designer, TV and Theater Director. Notable work. Bird and Lock, The Birds of Taha. Taha Behbahani (Persian: طاها بهبهانی) is a famous Iranian painter, [1] sculptor, set designer, TV and theatre director and a university professor was born in 1947 in Tehran, Iran.
Known for. Painter. 1951 miniature painting by master Behzad depicting the story of Farhad and Shirin. Hossein Behzad (1894 – 13 October 1968; Persian: حسین بهزاد) was a prominent Iranian painter. His early work was in the styles of the old masters of Persian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, hoping to save Persian ...
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, (Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran. It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century's world-class European and American paintings, prints, drawings and ...
Coordinates: 36°17′11.6228″N 59°36′57.2011″E. The Astan Quds Razavi Museum in Mashhad, which was founded in 1937, is a public museum in Iran. Located in the vicinity of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) and Gowharshad Mosque, the AQR Museum has been visited by pilgrims and tourists from Iran and other countries.
Touraj Daryaee. Touraj Daryaee ( Persian: تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. [ 1]
The Shami statue is one of the main surviving works of Parthian art. It is currently in the National Museum of Iran (Inv. no. 2401) and was found at Shami (modern Khūzestān Province ), where there was an ancient sanctuary. The bronze statue is 1.94 m high. The man depicted is shown frontally.