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Reflections on Qajar Art and Its Significance

Iranian Studies, 2001
It is with some reluctance that I agreed to contribute a few remarks to conclude a learned and fruitful colloquium and to react, once again, to a wonderful exhibition on Qajar art. My reluctance is simple to explain and to justify. Such professional competencies as I have are those of a medievalist who begins to feel slightly uneasy by the middle of ...
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Qajar Photography and its Relationship to Iranian Art: A Reassessment

History of Photography, 2013
As the ultimate expression of modernity in the nineteenth century, photography was integral to the introduction of the modern state to Iran. The use of photography as a political tool and as a means of recording information during the reign of Nāser-ed-Din Shah Qajar (1848–96) is well documented.
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The Power-ful Art of Qajar Photography: Orientalism and (Self)-Orientalizing in Nineteenth-Century Iran

Iranian Studies, 2001
Paradoxical though it may seem, I would like to begin my discussion of Qajar photography with a little-known painting (pl. 1). The work of an anonymous mid-nineteenth-century artist, this image marks an aesthetic watershed. Here, an unknown artist is photographing Nasir al-Din Shah who is posing for a portrait. The image, of course, is meant to capture
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Orient oder Rom?Qajar “Aryan” Architecture and Strzygowski's Art History

The Art Bulletin, 2007
One of the most heated controversies of modern scholarship, the 1901 “Orient or Rome” debate was inflamed by the simultaneous publication of two books. While Italian archaeologist Giovanni Rivoira argued for the origin of Western architecture in Roman ingenuity, Austrian art historian Josef Strzygowski contended, “The true source of Western artistic ...
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IRANIAN ART OF THE QAJAR ERA: EUROPEAN INFLUENCES AND «PERSIAN STYLE» FOR EXPORT

HSE University Journal of Art & Design
The Qajar era (late XVIII-1925) gave the world a unique style, unmistakably recognizable in painting, crafts, and photography. Clumsy, striking the imagination with its amazing brightness of colors and bold artistic techniques, it was formed largely due to active interaction with European culture via respect for the Persian traditional styles.
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Solomonic Angels in a Mughal Sky: The Wall Paintings of the Kala Burj at the Lahore Fort Revisited and Their Reception in Later South Asian and Qajar Art

2014
In this paper, I shall discuss how angels or winged spirits appear in the art of the Mughal Empire. The Mughals, the Muslim dynasty which was in power in India from 1526 to 1858, were paradigmatic in many of their formulations, and brilliantly expressed their ideas in the visual arts.
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Investigation of Pirnia's orientation theory (Roon) in Yazd Qajar houses

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2023
Hatef Jafari Sharami
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ART (NAQQASHJ) AND ART1STS (NAQQASHAN) IN QAJAR PERSIA

Muqarnas Online, 1999
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Conservation and analysis of a Qajar lacquered painting from the Faculty of Applied Arts Museum of Helwan University, Egypt

مجلة الفنون والعلوم الانسانية, 2022
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Modesty, Virtue, and Power in Pahlavani Martial Arts and the Zurkhanehs of the Qajar Era (with Emphasis on the Structure, Arrangement and Decorations of Tehran Zurkhanehs)

2023
Shayestehfar, Mahnaz, Khazaee, Rezvan, Dargi, Farzaneh, Hajiani, Fatemeh   +3 more
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