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- KAMĀL-AL-MOLK, MOḤAMMAD ḠAFFĀRI iii. Works
iii. Works Genres and quantity of works. A meticulous artist with a naturalistic obsession, Kamāl-al-Molk was not a prolific painter…
- KAMĀL-AL-MOLK, MOḤAMMAD ḠAFFĀRI ii. Style
ii. Style Kamāl-al-Molk’s art was the culmination of a trend towards the adaptation of a European naturalistic style in Persian…
- CRYSTAL
CRYSTAL (bolūr “crystal, rock crystal”; see crystal, rock; also ābgīna, lit. “like water”; šīša “glass”), originally a type of fine…
- CLOTHING x. In the Safavid and Qajar periods
CLOTHING x. In the Safavid and Qajar periods In the late 15th century the poet Neẓām-al-Dīn Maḥmūd Qārī (Neẓām Qārī)…
- CARPETS x. Afsharid and Zand Periods
CARPETS x. Afsharid and Zand Periods The rug production of Persia in the Afsharid (1148-61/1736-48) and Zand periods (1163-1209/1750-79) has…
- GOL O BOLBOL
GOL O BOLBOL, rose and nightingale, a popular literary and decorative theme. i. In Persian literature. ii. As a decorative…
- ʿAQD-NĀMA
ʿAQD-NĀMA, contract, now specifically marriage contract; synonyms, qabāla-ye ezdewāǰ, paymān-nāma. Marriage contracts belong to the class of Islamic legal deeds…
- NEGĀRESTĀN MUSEUM
NEGĀRESTĀN MUSEUM, a museum founded in Tehran in 1975, specializing in Iranian art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Introduction….
- ENAMEL
ENAMEL (Pers. mīnā, possibly a dialect form of mīnū < Mid. Pers. mēnōg “uncorporeal, spiritual, the world beyond, heaven” <…
- BEHZĀD, ḤOSAYN
BEHZĀD, ḤOSAYN (1273/1894-1347 Š./1968), lacquer artist, painter, and book illustrator. Born in Tehran, he was the son of Mīrzā Fażl-Allāh…