June 27, 2022
Book provides excellent overview of the history of and meaning behind orders, tournaments and armour An illustration from the 14th-century Codex Manesse of John, Duke of […]
June 24, 2022
The Woolf Institute has an international reputation for its interfaith work and is dedicated to educating the public about the heritage of the Abrahamic faiths – […]
June 18, 2022
TEHRAN – An art of exceptionally complex style, painstaking detail, and intricate narrative, Persian miniatures do not prompt an immediate response from anyone whose eyes are […]
June 15, 2022
Gold speaks in a universal tongue and has long held a special place in manuscript traditions around the world. Throughout the centuries, it has been incorporated […]
June 9, 2022
“She has been my friend and passion during the Covid lockdown. I started working on her in early July – 2021 and it took over […]
June 8, 2022
In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” […]
June 5, 2022
Ezzatollah Zarghami TEHRAN – Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Minister Ezzatollah Zarghami on Thursday inaugurated a new miniature museum in Tabriz, northwest Iran. The museum has […]
June 5, 2022
Note: To commemorate the 38th death anniversary of renowned historian ABM Habibullah we are reprinting one of his articles on Mughal painting. The article was first […]
May 28, 2022
An interesting article on using Deep Neural Netowrks to restore damaged biomorphic arts Highlights • Addressing the problem of Persian pottery restoration for the first time. […]
May 26, 2022
THE only original text of the Dîivân of Hâfiz which can be read with any degree of pleasure, or without impairing and imperiling even the strongest […]