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ART IN IRAN x.1 Art and Architecture of the Qajar Period
J. M. Scarce
Qajar art is characterized by an exuberant style and flamboyant use of color, which became more emphatic as the 19th century progressed; here Persian art may be compared with developments in 19th-century Europe.
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ART IN IRAN x.2 Qajar Painting
B. W. Robinson
The unsettled political situation following the death of Karīm Khan left little opportunity for schools of painting to flourish and develop. But even before their rise to supreme power the Qajars had captured the services of at least one painter who set a high standard for the first generation of their rule.
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ART IN IRAN xi. POST-QAJAR
K. Emāmī
About the mid-1950s, Iranian modernists started to receive official encouragement via the Department General of Fine Arts (later to become the Ministry of Arts and Culture).
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ART IN IRAN xii. IRANIAN PRE-ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN ISLAMIC ART
Maria Vittoria Fontana
Iranian pre-Islamic elements contributed to the formation and development of Islamic art, and they can be easily recognized in various contexts.
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ARTA
Cross-Reference
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ARTABANUS (Arsacid kings)
K. Schippmann
name borne by several Arsacid kings.
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ARTABANUS (Old Persian proper name)
M. A. Dandamayev
Latinized form of an Old Persian proper name.
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ARTABAZANES
C. J. Brunner
autonomous ruler of Armenia who submitted to the Seleucid king Antiochus III in 220 B.C., when the latter invaded his country.
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ARTABAZUS
M. A. Dandamayev
Old Iranian personal name.
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ARTABĒ
M. A. Dandamayev
the Greek form of a Median and Old Persian measure of volume.
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ARTACHAIĒS
A. Sh. Shahbazi
Greek rendering of an Old Iranian name.
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ARTAḪŠAR
Cross-Reference
See ARTOXARES.
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ARTAMANIA
M. Mayrhofer
prince of Zi-ri-ba-ša-ni, who wrote a letter of devotion to the pharaoh of Egypt.
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ARTAPHRENĒS
P. Lecoq
name given by Herodotus for the son of Hystaspes and brother of Darius I, and of various other Persians in Greek literature.
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ARTAŠŠUMARA
M. Mayrhofer
a Mitannian king.
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ARTASYRAS
M. A. Dandamayev
Old Iranian name *Ṛta-sūra “powerful through Arta”.
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ARTATĀMA
M. Mayrhofer
king of Mitanni.
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ARTAVARDIYA
M. A. Dandamayev
Old Persian personal name, meaning “doer of Justice.”
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ARTAVASDES
R. Schmitt
Old Iranian male personal name.
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ARTAXATA
R. H. Hewsen
a city of ancient Armenia founded ca. 176 B.C. by King Artaxias I.A