Qajar pictorial arts contain different themes such as political and courtly, heroic and epic, religious, romantic, erotic and sensual, and decorative (vegetal and geometric). Among all these we should consider another subcategory, i.e. military theme. The numerous works in this field have been manifested in various media, including oil paintings, watercolors, wall paintings, tilework, lithograp...

The Qajar paintings can be categorized into two main periods: the first period, initiated at the beginning of the reign of Fath-Ali Shah and continued until the reign of Naser al-din Shah. It focuses on the combination of ornamental and Persian painting forms with the achievements of naturalist art such as perspective principle and its important feature is the total domination of Persian art. I...

Sassanid stone reliefs that were carved on the mountains are the main part of the artistic heritage of this ancient era, but the art of stone reliefs have worn by the rise of Islam and its spread through the country, then Qajar dynasty, especially Fath Ali Shah, has revived this art after 1200 years. There are some stone reliefs remained from Qajar era, that have significant similarities with S...

Royal Portraiture is one of the last Iranian miniature styles which more or less can be considered a Synthesis Style of Iranian and European elements. This style was inspired by Westernization, but underwent important changes during the Qajar era. In this research, one tries to analyze and interpret one of its ruptures that occurred in the era of Mohammad Shah. The main issue of the present pro...

from the beginning of human life, there has been a deep reverence for sky and celestial bodies, because most of the people have believed that the positions of (he s(ars and the movements of the planets influence human affairs and personalities, in (he past, astrology was very important at the kings’ courts, of which the iranian rulers were not excepted. using a horoscope, astrologers study the ...

چکیده قاجارها و حکومت پهلوی اول علی بازوند موضوع انقراض سلسله قاجار و انتقال حکومت به پهلوی از رخدادهای مهم تاریخ معاصر ایران است . که در این پژوهش به چگونگی نقش و عملکرد دیوان سالاران ، شاهزادگان و رجال خاندان قاجاری در این انتقال قدرت و نحوه ی برخورد رضاشاه با قاجارها دردوران سلطنت به آن پرداخته شده است . برای پاسخ به این مسأله ، بررسی های انجام گرفته بیانگر آن است که مخالفت افراد قاج...

mirza hasan khan llchi shirazi (1776 -1848) was the second son of mirza mohammad ali, a secretary in nader shah court. he was an influenced statesman in fath-ali shah and mohammad shah kingdoms, whose biography and political deeds were subjected to several questions, such as receiving salary from british government, to which many sources have pointed. the remaining records from the past, can be...