Finding Visual Information: A Study of Image Resources Used by Archaeologists, Architects, Art Historians, and Artists

A framework of image use among archaeologists, architects, art historians and artists

Two Attitudes toward Art History: A Comparative Study of Philosophy of Art History of Qādī Ahmad Qomi and Giorgio Vasari in “Golestān-e Honar” and “Lives f the Artists”

Up to now, about the first art history as we know today, i.e "Golestān-e Honar" by Qādī Mir Ahmad Qomi and "Lives of the Artists" by Giorgio Vasari, different researches and studies from different aspects of bibliographical, historical and literary has been done. But what has been neglected is a broader and deeper view into the epistemic foundation and theoretical frame of historiography and vi...

Alberti’s System of Human Proportions: The Mean between the Natural and the Transcendent

Style As the conception of human underwent significant change during the renaissance era, the theory of human proportions gained great importance among the artists and art theorists of the time. The renaissance artists put considerable effort on finding and presenting an ideal model for human body proportions that could represent the newly founded status of the human being in their time. Howeve...

AN ICONOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SULTAN MOHAMMAD NAQASH'S PAINTING CALLED "MASTI LAHOUTI AND NASUTI "

The range of theoretical sciences related to visual arts in the present age based on historical achievements, ranging from the Renaissance scientific studies to a wide range of philosophical and aesthetic theories, which has broadened from the Enlightenment age and has encompassed a variety of theses, antitheses and synthesis, has been growing to the present day. Meanwhile, interdisciplinary st...

Islamic Architects and Islamic Mathematicians Artistics Meeting, To Utilize Geometry in Architecture The period under study is the fourth to the eleventh AH

In specialized topics of aesthetics, structure and function, the buildings of Islamic architecture in Iran during certain periods, show the strong presence of intellectual sciences such as mathematics. The use of geometry as a part of the science of numerical mathematics, which in its intellectual position has complex calculations, indicates the connection of Islamic architects with the mathema...