In this paper a novel general methodology is introduced for the computer-aided reconstruction of the magnificent wall-paintings of the Greek island Thera, painted in the middle of the second millennium BC. These wall-paintings are excavated in fragments and, as a result, their reconstruction is a painstaking and a time-consuming process. Therefore, in order to facilitate and speed up this proce...

In this study, we combined the behavioral and objective approach in the field of empirical aesthetics. First, we studied the perception of beauty by investigating shifts in evaluation on perceived beauty of abstract artworks (Experiment 1). Because the participants showed heterogeneous individual preferences for the paintings, we divided them into seven clusters for the test. The experiment rev...

Since the Sassanid era, many reliefs and seals have left and by reviewing their designs, the mythical and religious attitudes of those people can be understood. The purpose of this article is to decode and interpret the symbolic paintings and to review and study the myths, concepts, and religious rituals of this period. The question is that what the divine and human origin of the symbolic paint...

The first ecclesiastical writer to take the Tridentine decrees relating to the use and abuse of religious imagery1 as a starting point for an analysis of the question of nudity in art was Johannes M ~ l a n u s , ~ in his De Picturis et Imaginibus Sacris It is true that Gilio (Louvain 1 5 7 0 ) ~ ~ da Fabriano had already published his Dialogo degli Errori de' Pittori in 1564,~ the year after t...

Similarly the tenth century Cholapaintings and 17th century Kayak paintings in the narrow and dark confines of the inner ambulatory of the Brhadisvara temple at Tanjore in South India, have been comprehensively photo-documented. Most of these were completely unseen by scholars and this photography has led to fundamental changes in the understanding of the historical development of painting in I...

Current work in author identification is primarily directed towards music classification. Identification of artists by analyzing features of their work has recently gained interest. As a multiclass classification problem, potentially applicable machine learning approaches to the problem are numerous. We propose to extend present work in this area, which uses Naïve Bayes classifiers and multi-cl...

illustrated shahnama of shah tahmasp, manuscript of1538ad and one ofsafvidperiodemasterpiece in persian painting,composed of 258 paintings. illustrators for stories painting, sometimes have chosen several time and place of a story to illustrate and have created a namber of works. fereydoun, zahak, siavash, zal, anoushiravan and kaykhosro stories are like this. some of these paintings have image...

the art of carpet weaving has undergone changes during the course of history. this ancient art has gradually found its place among other branches of art due to its artistic and consumer characteristics. the art of carpet weaving has heavily influenced other fields like painting for its elegant ornamentation. this paper will elaborate on the widespread relations between persian and italian art d...