investigating tiles with qajar women motifs in houses of shiraz

the art of qajar period includes many unique features and themes. one of the most exceptional features of qajar artworks (painting on tiles) is women motifs depicted at semiprivate and private spaces, at houses of nobilities, and palaces. qajar women in these paintings interact with foreign women’s identity and they have shown a new face of iranian women. the archi-myth of qajar period is included of three different groups of myths: islamic myths, iranian myths and distant myths. after all, we can say in the female motifs of qajar’s artworks, iranian, islamic and native identities are present simultaneously. qajar woman has an independent entity in solitaire frames. this article has investigated the identity of the qajar woman and her actions and her personal characteristics, by analyzing a set of visual documents- solitaire frame tiles with women motifs- which is left from that era in shiraz’s houses.