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...

During the Qajar period, due to the influence of European artists, the method of oil painting became very popular in Iran, where this trend was common not only on cloth canvases but also on decoration of the walls of buildings. The western art influenced not only the use of materials, but also the method of execution and even the type of designs, and led to the blending of Western artistic meth...

Although the flourishing of steel art is associated with the Safavid period, the Qajar era can also be considered as the summit of steel applications, particularly in making tools. Two groups of trades, producers and users, have used the tools. Diversity of the tools is representative of dramatic development in terms of form and function in this period. The characteristics of steel products in ...