To study the objective and figurative representation of the heavenly contexts in Iranian Islamic art [PDF]
Iranian religious art has avoided any figurative representation following the expression of the exalted order. The religious topics and otherworldly affairs were restricted due to the necessity of the figurative representations and narrative atmosphere ...
Najibeh Rahmani +2 more
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Analytical study of visual features and structural elements of the circular motif in a painting known as Shams of the late Qajar period preserved in the Astan Quds Razavi Museum [PDF]
The Qajar period is one of the brightest periods in painting, and religious painting is one of its branches. Some of these paintings have been made for the king in high quality and on silk canvases.
Elaheh Panjehbashi
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Exploring the City in the Cinema of Bahram Beyzaie [PDF]
This article explores five of Bahram Beyzaie's urban films over the last four decades to study their critique of the process of modernization and social changes that have taken place in Iran.
Pak, Nacim
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MODERNITY OF PERSIAN PAINTING IN SOCIAL DISCOURSES OF CONTEMPORARY IRAN FOCUSING ON ERNESTO LACLAU’s AND CHANTAL MOUFFE’S DISCOURSE ANALYSIS APPROACH [PDF]
Persian painting has been well known as a traditional art with a deep-rooted history, evolving consistently in accordance with traditions and the context of cultural changes of the society of its respective age.
maryam khodammohammadi +2 more
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Gottheil, Richard James Horatio [PDF]
Gottheil, Richard James Horatio (b. 13 October 1862, Manchester, UK; d. 22 May 1936, New York City), a prolific scholar, an important academic teacher and administrator, as well as an influential public intellectual.
Riedel, Dagmar A.
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Move Objects to Shift Meaning: Tracing the Relocation of a Painting by Oswald Onghers in Frankfurt Cathedral [PDF]
For centuries, the Church of St Bartholomew (Frankfurt Cathedral) had a richly decorated interior, and numerous precious objects in the church’s treasury.
Johannsen, Kerstin
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Analysis of Qajar era Religious Murals with Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutic Approach (With Emphasis on the Holy Shrines of Gilan and Isfahan) [PDF]
The art of religious murals with themes of Ashura, narrations of prophets and Shiite imams, is a part of Qajar visual arts, which has adorned the space of holy places such as mausoleums, Takyehs and Hoseyniyehs.
Shiva Zamanpour, Amirhosien Chitsazian
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UNINTERRUPTED CENSORED DARWIN: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MALAY‐INDONESIAN WORLD
Abstract This essay outlines the significance of understanding the relationship between Islam and science, particularly from the twentieth century onward. It mainly revolves around the viability of Darwin's evolutionary thought in the Muslim world, which is confronted by various groups of Muslim commentators and scholars.
Majid Daneshgar
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Domesticating goods from overseas : global material culture in the early modern Netherlands [PDF]
This essay is based on the notion that the early modern world was shaped by connections that stretched across geographical, political and cultural boundaries. The mobility of early modern people, ideas and things, and the networks they created and relied
Gerritsen, Anne
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