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 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 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 […]
May 6, 2022
The Philip Guston Now exhibition in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (until 11 September) Photo: © Museum […]
May 4, 2022
History of the Painting art in Iran: A Persian miniature is a more detailed painting, which depicts literature or mythological themes from the region of the […]
May 3, 2022
RUSTAM KICKING AWAY THE BOULDER PUSHED BY BAHMAN ATTRIBUTED TO AQA MIRAK, ASSISTED BY QASIM BIN ‘ALI, SAFAVID TABRIZ, CIRCA 1530 Folio 451 from the Shah […]
May 3, 2022
The start of June, I took two classes with the very talented Persian manuscripts and miniatures artist, Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts […]