A Comparison of Meaningful Structure of Paintings and Social Class of Artists in the Illumination of the Great Shahnama of Ilkhanid and SAMAK-E AYAR

In this paper, the images of two manuscripts of Ilkhanid dynasty Great Shahnama  and Samak-e- Ayyar of Ale- Injoo   have been studied in terms of sociology of art. both of these works are related to the late Ilkhanid dynasty of the 8th century. Socially, the late Ilkhanid era was a time when the dissatisfaction of various Iranian classes had reached its peak and the power of the Mongolian Ilkhanid rulers had reached its lowest level. The two manuscripts selected are from two different cities with different social conditions. The aim was to investigate the structural and thematic aspects of these two versions using the Genetic Structuralism Approach and to identify the meaningful structures of the images in both versions separately. Then the Iranian society and the existing classes of that period were studied and their main structures were identified. The artists of these two works belonged to two different social classes and had different worldviews and attitudes and their aspirations and belonged to different fields. The research question is: What is the relationship between the meaningful structure of the paintings and the social class of artists in the Ilkhanid period? The research is comparative and its method is descriptive-analytical. The result is that the reason for the stylistic differences between the two books of the Great Shahnama of Ilkhanid and Samak- e- Ayyar is the difference between the categories of artists belonging to the two groups of artists in Tabriz and Shiraz. It was also shown that the meaningful structures in the book of the the Great Shahnama of Ilkhanid are identical with the main structures of the elite and Iranian elders residing in Tabriz, and the meaningful structures of Samak-e-Ayyarchr(chr('39')39chr('39'))s book illustrate the main structures of the class of local artists living in Shiraz. The lives of the villagers and urban dwellers felt close to one another, and equal.