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...

Beauty has always been considered as one of the most important dimensions of art and architecture throughout history, and real decoration has also been used as one of the methods of creating beauty in Iranian architecture. Despite the possibility of reaching human written opinions about beauty and decoration, opinions about the philosophy and criterion of the origin of beauty are expressed diff...

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...

Flower pot is one of the frequently used motifs in Qajar period. This decoration is abundantly found in carvings and tiling decoration of the mosque-schools in Qajar period. There is also the flower pot in previous eras schools such as Safavid period schools , but the flower pots used in Safavid period schools differ from the flower pots used in the Qajar period mosque- schools. However, this s...

Wall painting stands among the prominent art media for displaying royal themes in Qajar era. There were many murals in the palaces and buildings of that period now mostly destroyed, however descriptions or pictures of which are available in historical texts to study and observe. The royal (New Year) reception wall painting of Fath Ali Shah in Negarestan palace and that of Naser ad-Din Shah in N...

Abstarct: Qajar rugs are among the richest treasures of Iranian art. In these carpets , specific kind of design and new usage were created. Motifs of these group of qajar carpets not only were affected by various literary and storied themes but also reflected by religious and mystical themes. In this way, we can mention carpets of spiritual characters and darvishes. Weaving of darvish ‘s fac...

The present research with an emphasis on coffee houses at Qajar age has recognized motives and effect of social and political factors such as conditional event in formation of art traditions in coffee house so as to examine the communication function of coffee house painting at this space. Coffee house at Qajar age has been found as a place for people’s gathering which had communicative-cultura...