During the past year the Museum's collection of Islamic art has been greatly enriched by several important purchases, gifts, and bequests. The bequest of twenty ceramics and two Persian rugs by Horace Havemeyer has already been discussed in a separate Bulletin article (May I957). One of the most notable additions was the Cora Timken Burnett Bequest of Persian miniatures and other art objects, w...

it is true, it is true,the arts of book book in ottoman times drew their initial inspiration from those of iran. in some of the associated specialities, for example in most qur’anic illumination and in the illustration of verse romances, they did not progress significantly beyond this heritage. the timurid zafarnama and perhaps the most ilkhanid chingiznama had chronicled military exploits in a...

Background: Visual thinking strategy (VTS) is an interdisciplinary education that focuses on art. In this method, all students think about complex artistic elements. VTS uses visual literacy to teach communication skills and thinking. Objectives: This study aims compare the educational effectiveness of Persian pictures with classical painting, which leads teaching concepts medical humanities us...

This article aims to read Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red as an ekphrastic reimagination and the “imagetext” in which visual representation object of novelist’s verbal account sixteenth century miniature art Renaissance perspectival painting shown a diabolic opposition. Ekphrasis leading mode also realized novel through incorporating certain figures images from Ottoman Persian miniatures character...

pardaz is technique of employing points or small dots of colour to creat the maximum colour intensity. in other word, it is type of intaglio engaraving in which groups of dots and lines are used to build up tonal effects. it conveys dual interest in intensifying the effect of colour and light. this was a lengthy process requiring great skill and colour impressions were usually double the price ...