Lecture: Picturing Power and Poetics: Persian Miniatures from Timurid Herat to Safavid Isfahan
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What is Persian Painting, and how does it relate to us in the current age?
This forthcoming online lecture offers a focused art-historical introduction to Persian miniature painting. We will begin the journey with the definition of the genre, considering the scale, craftsmanship, and visual analysis of miniature imagery. We then explore the manuscripts within Safavid court culture, the treatment of illuminated books as luxury commodities and instruments of political representation, along with the evolution of Persian Miniature Schools and the emergence of shifting styles for distinct provincial expressions. Finally, we will examine the pictorial space between Persian and Western examples and consider the miniatures’ poetic and conceptual strategies in representing human experience.
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About
What is Persian Painting, and how does it relate to us in the current age?
This forthcoming online lecture offers a focused art-historical introduction to Persian miniature painting. We will begin the journey with the definition of the genre, considering the scale, craftsmanship, and visual analysis of miniature imagery. We then explore the manuscripts within Safavid court culture, the treatment of illuminated books as luxury commodities and instruments of political representation, along with the evolution of Persian Miniature Schools and the emergence of shifting styles for distinct provincial expressions. Finally, we will examine the pictorial space between Persian and Western examples and consider the miniatures’ poetic and conceptual strategies in representing human experience.
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