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Persian painting has several branches, most famously the classical art of the Persian miniature, and including the modern popular form of "Qahveh Khanehei" Painting (Tea House style of painting). Many modern Iranian artists practice Modern art in an international style. Image File history File linksMetadata Persian_art_collage. ... Iran is filled with tombs of poets and musicians, such as this one belonging to Rahi Moayeri. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... The themes of Persian miniature are mostly related to the Persian mythology and poetry. ... The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, or textile. ... Iran (Persia) possesses an extraordinary treasure of royal jewelry including the mothers-of-pearl caught in the Persian Gulf. ... Persian embroidery is one of the many forms of the multi-faceted Persian arts. ... Persia (Iran) has an ancient tradition of its own design of motifs. ... Pottery Vessel, Fourth Millennium BCE. The Sialk collection of Tehrans National Museum of Iran. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Persian literature (in Persian: ‎ ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... The beliefs and practices of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan (modern Ho-tien, China), form Persian mythology. ... ART is a three-letter acronym that can mean: Adaptive resonance theory Arlington Transit, a bus service that serves Arlington County, Virginia Advanced Rapid Transit metro technology assisted reproductive technology Anaheim Resort Transit Watertown International Airport (IATA airport code: ART) ISO 639 alpha-3 code for otherwise unassigned artificial languages... Naghsh-i Jahan Square, Isfahan, is the second largest square in the world and arguably the gem of Persian architectural masterpieces. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Iranian cuisine. ... Carpet is a general term given to any loom-woven or felted textile and to grass floor coverings. ... Art depicting two men in a Persian Garden Persian Gardens refers to a tradition and style of garden design which originated in Persia, modernday Iran. ... This article is about Performance art. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Figurines playing stringed instruments, excavated at Susa, 3rd millennium BC. Iran National Museum. ... The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history. ... Safavid era Miniature painting kept at Shah Abbas Hotel in Isfahan. ... Dejeuner sur lHerbe by Pablo Picasso At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 The Scream by Edvard Munch, 1893 I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911 Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Campbells Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two...

The combat of Rostam and Esfandiar, two mythical characters in Shahnameh
Commonly used image in Iran indicating one artist's conception of Ali's appearance

Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Rostam Slaying the Dragon- A miniature Painting by Master Mahmoud Farshchian. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Shahnameh Scenes from the Shahnameh carved into reliefs at Tus, where Ferdowsi is buried. ... Image File history File links Ali2. ... Image File history File links Ali2. ... For other uses, see Ali (disambiguation). ...

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Persian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (134 words)
Persian literature is literature written in Persian, or by Persians in other languages.
Persian literature is one of the most extensive literatures of the world with a tradition of over 2000 years.
Most of the ancient Persian literature was lost during the Islamic conquest of Persia.
JAIC 1991, Volume 30, Number 2, Article 2 (pp. 125 to 144) (10917 words)
The paintings analyzed in her study date from the 15th through the 17th centuries, and azurite was found in six of them.
Persian painting techniques and tools are so different from Western painting traditions that a new body of information needs to be assembled before it can be applied to the study of Persian paintings.
During the painting of a manuscript illumination or an individual painting, the paper was secured to a portable, smooth wooden panel with a clamp (Welch 1972, 26).
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