Illustrated-fiction books are special forms of art that are the combination of text and picture. The relationship between text and picture in this genre is diverse and variegated, and has different effects on the audience; however, little research has been done about it. The goal of this research is to compare text/picture relationship in the selected Iranian and contemporary American-European ...

The influence of Kamal-ol-Molk on Iranian contemporary art is taken for granted. This effect was the beginning of changing the paradigms governing Persian painting. But despite the influential position of Kamal-ol-Molk, the discussion about this influence and position has not always been the same, and perhaps it can be said that few artists in contemporary Iranian art have experienced such a di...

Ḥadīth is considering as the most important source to know the religion of Islam after the Quran. Therefore, studying Ḥadīths is necessary to know Islam teachings in respect of beauty, art and recognizing art condition in the early Islamic period. However, little attention is paid to Ḥadīth in art studies. For having the most out of Ḥadīths, obstacles and restrictions confronting the art resear...

In the West, the history of writing on art goes back to the classical antiquity but writing art history began with Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century pioneering work on the artists’ biographies. In the present article, the authors follow the preliminary conditions that led to the birth and development of art history in the western world. The first important comparison is between the birth time of ar...