A happy and energetic race of scholars are archeologists whose camping ground is the Near East. Except for rare cases like the lateT. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but ...

Size isn't everything — even when it comes to visual art. But sometimes blowing things up doesn't hurt either. The American painter Conley Harris took this philosophy to the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

An ambitious endeavor for one publication, this book approaches the near boundless field of Persian painting from a thematic vantage point. A prefatory but comprehensive historical overview, including ...

Installation view of The Rose Empire: Masterpieces of 19th Century Persian Art at the Louvre-Lens (photo by Laurent Lamacz, courtesy Louvre-Lens) Binding decorated with flowers and birds, Iran (ca ...

LAHORE, Nov 2: The Lahore Museum has come up with a well-researched and valuable work titled “Persian Paintings and Drawings in the Lahore Museum”. The book has been written and compiled by American ...

Artists > Persian School, 19th Century > Artworks > Indo-Persian Gouache Miniature Painting - Lion Hunt - This miniature depicts 2 men on the back of an elephant hunting a lion. Painted offset on ...

His Imperial Majesty Reza Khan Pahlavi listened to entreaty and, with a grand gesture, has given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London’s ...