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A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Painting, from Royal to Urban Patronage
Within illustrated manuscripts and albums, paintings could illustrate a story, interpret it, and symbolically expand it in a number of ways by enabling their audiences, both royal and nonroyal, to lay claim to a cultural heritage, glorify a common past, or comment upon contemporary events. With the emergence of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, dynastic styles of painting and book arts were consciously developed. The works of poet Firdawsi and poet Nizami were the most frequently illustrated with paintings. The deployment of dynastic history to promote current political concerns became an especially significant trend. A number of Ottoman illustrated histories also functioned as pictorial genealogies and books of individualized royal portraiture. Whereas Ottoman religious paintings tend to promote the Sunni cause, within Safavid Iran a number of texts with religious imagery show clear Shii leanings. The making of albums appears to have begun in Timurid courtly spheres during the early 1400s.
Painting, from Royal to Urban Patronage
Within illustrated manuscripts and albums, paintings could illustrate a story, interpret it, and symbolically expand it in a number of ways by enabling their audiences, both royal and nonroyal, to lay claim to a cultural heritage, glorify a common past, or comment upon contemporary events. With the emergence of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, dynastic styles of painting and book arts were consciously developed. The works of poet Firdawsi and poet Nizami were the most frequently illustrated with paintings. The deployment of dynastic history to promote current political concerns became an especially significant trend. A number of Ottoman illustrated histories also functioned as pictorial genealogies and books of individualized royal portraiture. Whereas Ottoman religious paintings tend to promote the Sunni cause, within Safavid Iran a number of texts with religious imagery show clear Shii leanings. The making of albums appears to have begun in Timurid courtly spheres during the early 1400s.
Painting, from Royal to Urban Patronage
Flood, Finbarr Barry (editor) / Necipoğlu, Gülru (editor) / Fetvacı, Emine (author) / Gruber, Christiane (author)
2017-08-21
29 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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