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Persian art or Iranian art ( Persian: هنر ایرانی, romanized : Honar-è Irâni) has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in many media including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and sculpture. At different times, influences from the art of neighbouring civilizations ...
The pre-Parsian style (New Persian:شیوه معماری پیش از پارسی) is a sub-style of architecture (or "zeer-sabk") when categorizing the history of Persian/Iranian architectural development. This architectural style flourished in the Iranian Plateau until the eighth century BC, during the era of the Median Empire.
Traditional Persian residential architecture. Traditional Persian residential architecture is the architecture employed by builders and craftsmen in the cultural Greater Iran and the surrounding regions to construct vernacular houses. The art draws from various eras and elements of Persia from both Islamic Persian and pre-Islamic Persian times.
Persian column. Persian columns or Persepolitan columns are the distinctive form of column developed in the Achaemenid architecture of ancient Persia, probably beginning shortly before 500 BCE. They are mainly known from Persepolis, where the massive main columns have a base, fluted shaft, and a double-animal capital, most with bulls. [1]
A Persian miniature ( Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in ...
Achaemenid architecture is academically classified under Persian architecture in terms of its style and design. [5] Achaemenid architectural heritage, beginning with the expansion of the empire around 550 B.C., was a period of artistic growth that left an extraordinary architectural legacy ranging from Cyrus the Great's solemn tomb in ...
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād ( c. 1455/60–1535), also known as Kamal al-din Bihzad or Kamaleddin Behzād ( Persian: کمالالدین بهزاد ), was a Persian painter and head of the royal ateliers in Herat and Tabriz during the late Timurid and early Safavid Periods. [1] He is regarded as marking the highpoint of the great tradition of ...
The Baysunghur Shahnameh ( Persian: شاهنامه بایسنقری) is an illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. The work on this manuscript was started in 1426 at the order of Baysunghur Mirza, the Timurid prince, and was completed on 5 Jumada 833, (January 31, 1430). It is now in the museum of The ...