The MFA, along with companion exhibitions at the Harvard Art Museum and the Houghton Library beginning in June 2010, marks a millennium of Shahnama inspiration by looking at different aspects of the poem...
Tehran's Sa'ad Abad Cultural and Historical Complex has mounted an exhibition of artworks dating from the Pahlavi era until the 1979 Islamic revolution...
Iranian artist Mostafa Aqamiri has been awarded at the 4th edition of the Sharjah Biennial for the Art of Arabic Calligraphy held in the United Arab Emirates...
Tehran is hosting the fifth nationwide exquisite Persian carpet festival to bring different types of Persian carpets under one roof for all to marvel at...
Iranian craftsmen have been invited to participate in a cultural and artistic festival in Algeria to introduce various forms of Persian handicrafts...
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The Migration of Persian Artists to India
Shah ‘Abbas I, in a letter to the imprisoned Seal Keeper, Jalal-ed-Din Amir-Beik, unambiguously mentions a significant event of Safavid times, namely the Persians’ efforts at migrating to India...
The Eastern sources of Western art have long been identified. Emile Mâle, Henri Focillon and Jean Baltrusaitis have traced back the major characteristics of this influence to their origins. They have explored the meanders of this river, which has been the feeding source of European art in the Middle Ages and the fountainhead of its prosperity...
Each year the municipality of Paris, along with the Association for the Friends of the Bagatelle, holds an exhibition to present the relationship between man and his environment, especially his garden.
