A Calligraphic Composition by Ismaʿil Jalayir in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Maryam Ekhtiar Synopsis: This presentation focuses on a calligraphic composition with tiny vignettes made by the 19th-century Iranian painter Isma‘il Jalayir, now held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It attempts to unpack this mesmerizing painting, analyze…
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From the Miniature to the Monumental: The Negarestan Museum Painting of the Sons of Fath Ali Shah
From the Miniature to the Monumental: The Negarestan Museum Painting of the Sons of Fath Ali Shah Layla S. Diba Synopsis: Persian painting is still largely understood as the “miniature,” an Orientalist term for small-scale, semi-abstract decorative manuscript illustration. However, nineteenth-century Iran under Qajar rule witnessed a proliferation of figural oil-on-canvas and wall painting. While…