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Seljukid Portrait Drawing Continuity of Manichean Visual Art
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| Seljuk government extended the realm of Iran and played an influential role in the evolution of poetry and art, thus the era of this dynasty turned to one the most glorious periods of Art, Culture and Civilization in Iran history.
During the Seljuk era of prosperity, the impact of Iranian - Islamic aesthetic approach, not only became apparent on Seljukid art, but also created a configuration of visual and conceptual traditions in Islamic civilization, which has influenced many of outstanding works of art on that period and also during later periods.
With the advent of Islam, due to the prohibitions, the painting art of Iran moved toward abstract, geometric and plant motifs.
Studying on the existing images on the metal and pottery works of seljuk era, suggests that there was a manner in drawing, despite the ban on the images in that period, which was a reproduced Manichaean tradition of painting.
Seljukid Portrait Drawing was under which one of visual cultures? Or how the art pattern influenced it?
During this research by applying a comparative study, 26 samples of works remained from two Iranian art period, Manichean and Seljukid has been studied. This research is trying to prove that the visual practices and portrait drawing patterns in Manichean paintings has been emerged again in paintings and artworks of Seljuks.
In this paper the material has been collected by the Library and Archives and has been studied by analytical, descriptive and historical method. To understand the commonalities between painting art, especially portraits drawing of Manichean and Seljukid is one the main gaols of this research |
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| Keywords: Portrait Drawing, Painting, Manichean, Seljukid, Visual Art |
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Received: 2014/11/6 | Accepted: 2014/11/6 | Published: 2014/11/6
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