The word miniature has entered the Persian language in the middle of the recent century, and almost since the Qajar period (1789–1925). Persian miniature has made a path for the emergence of divine ...

Catch up on the day's news you need to know. It’s a miniature that’s probably about 5 inches by about 3 inches. It’s a hand-painted peacock on a bone-type material. So the detail the artist puts in, ...

Mahmoud Farshchian was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Isfahan, Iran. Born into a family with a deep appreciation for the arts—his father was a Persian carpet merchant—Farshchian developed an ...

The first major retrospective devoted to the Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, The Garden, features works spanning 15 years of the artist’s practice—including loans from private ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Shahzia Sikander is one of the contemporary art world's most celebrated stars. She's projecting her hypnotic video installations onto Times Square billboards; she's led exhibitions at major art ...

I inherited this bracelet from my mother-in-law. She said it was a gift from her landlady, who was from the “old country.” The gift occurred about 1935 and happened when my mother-in-law was moving ...