Aghaie, Abdollah

[ 1 ] - The Representation of European Landscapes in Later Safavid Painting

From the middle of the Safavid era, with the expansion of relations with the West, European landscapes were used in various ways in the composition of paintings called “FARANGI-SAZI”. In this article, by adopting a hermeneutic approach, the epistemological context necessary for the emergence of “landscape painting” as an independent genre in European painting has been studied and then the trans...

[ 2 ] - The Study of Image by Aby Warburg

Warburg is one of the most inspiring figures in the German tradition of art historiography. Although one of the well-known aspects of Warburg’s intellectual work is its relation to iconology, this article seeks to go beyond the conventional understanding of Warburg to mapping a picture of his “special” view of the image as a whole. To this end, by re-reading the classic Warburg texts and new in...

[ 3 ] - Legitimizing Art in the Prefaces of Tīmūrīd and Safavīd Albums

In addition to the numerous goals mentioned for Albums Prefaces, they were also an opportunity for writers and artists to defend the existence of art and artist. The present study tries to pay attention to this part of the albums prefaces and answer the question that what methods did the authors of the albums prefaces in the Tīmūrīd and Safavīd periods use to legitimize art? The purpose of this...

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