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  Persian Cusine, Worldwide Directory of Iranian restaurants, FarsiEats: WorldWide Directory of Persian Restaurants and ...
"Persian cuisine is exotic, healthy, and combination of rice and filet mignon beef, lamb, chicken, fish, garlic, onion, vegetables, nuts, pomegranate, and herbs.
Persian Cuisine is exotic yet simple similar to an Omar Khayyam’s poem.
Persian cooking is combination of rice with meat, chicken or fish and plenty of garlic, onion, vegetables, nuts, and herbs.
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  Persian miniature Summary
Miniatures were painted on palm leaves or canvas until the introduction of paper in Iran in the beginning of the sixteenth century.
It is difficult to trace the origins of the art of Persian miniature, as it reached its peak mainly during the Mongol and Timurid periods (13th - 16th Century).
In the Shiraz miniatures of the 14th Century, symmetry of construction was predominant, and for the most part composition was frieze-like, straightforward and monotonous.
www.bookrags.com /Persian_miniature   (1733 words)

  
 Art Arena - A brief history of Persian Miniature
It is difficult to trace the origins of the art of Persian miniature, as it reached its peak mainly during the Mongol and Timurid periods (13
Miniature developed into a marriage of artistic and poetic languages and obtained a deep and sincere accordance with poetry.
It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Persian literature.
www.art-arena.com /Min.html   (1085 words)

  
 BRIEF HISTORY OF MOSLEM MINIATURE PAINTING
Miniature from a manuscript of the Shah Nameh of Firdausi.
Miniature from a manuscript of the Khamseh of Khwaju Kirmani.
Miniatures of this period often utilized a new aide for producing perspective: the inclusion of a hill in the background.
www.youngartists.com /mphatouf.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Persian people Information
The ancient Persians from the province of Pars became the rulers of a large empire under the Achaemenid dynasty (Hakhamanesheeyan) in the sixth century BC, reuniting the tribes and other provinces of the ancient Iranian plateau and forming the Persian Empire.
Persians artistic expression can be seen as far back as the Achaemenid period as numerous statues depicting various important figures, usually of political significance as well as religious, such as the Immortals (elite troops of the emperor) are indicative of the influence of Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon.
Persian architecture streams over the borders of Iran and is clearly seen throughout Central Asia as with the Bibi Khanum Mosque in Samarkand and the Minaret of Jam in western Afghanistan.
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 JAIC 1991, Volume 30, Number 2, Article 2 (pp. 125 to 144)
Miniatures in three separate collections were examined: three in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; two in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and six in the Fogg Art Museum, now in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
One, by Khoury (1985), was an analysis of four royal Persian miniatures from the 16th and 17th centuries.
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.
aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic30-02-002.html   (10917 words)

  
 Persian wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Persian wine also called Mei and Badeh was a cultural symbol and tradition in Persia, and had a significant presence in Persian mythology, Persian poetry and Persian miniature.
In galleries and museums around the world, one witnesses Persian miniature paintings that were created in recent years.
Usually, the old man in the painting is Hafez or Kayyam, who having left his scholarly position and books behind is now drunk in Kharabat (a mystical run down tavern that is located in a remote and poor corner of town) or in Golshan (garden) drinking wine from the hands of gorges Saghis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_wine   (363 words)

  
 Persian literature: persian food, culture and poetry books
Mage publishes books of Persian literature and culture in English: Persian food, Iranian music, poetry of Persia, gardens of Persia, a timeline of Persian history from the ancient Persian Empires to modern Iran, reprints of books about Iran.
Besides being the most complete translation of Iran’s national epic in English prose and poetry, these books incorporate the best of Persian art with over 600 Persian miniatures.
Mage Publishers is an independent press founded in 1985 with a goal of publishing Persian literature and culture that bring to readers outside Iran and around the globe the best of the Persian arts in English.
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 Islamic arts
Persians, because of their background in art and architecture were one of the most influential among these Islamic nations.
The art of the miniature became popular for the decoration of books and creating pictures of mythological figures and royal families and scenes of their hunting, fights, and celebrations (figure 5a).
The miniature artist believes that perspective is an optical illusion and in order for him to reach the divine milieu, he tries to refrain from observing the principles of perspective.
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 16th Century Persian Women's Clothing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With a careful study of 16th century Persian miniature painting, along with an understanding of clothing construction from neighboring areas, it is possible to make a fairly accurate reproduction of women's clothing from Persia.
Persian miniature paintings employ both vivid and muted colors for clothing, colors that are also available from textile dyes.
All of these patterns were developed after a close study of Persian miniature paintings, from a combination of modern ethnic Afghan and 16th and 17th century Ottoman Turkish patterns, and after several trial runs.
fenris.net /~lizyoung/16thCePers/16thCePersian.html   (3512 words)

  
 Persian art, fantasy flying in dreams
The geometry, the numbers, the clothing, the winding, and the twist of the cloth are all in the art of miniature, that is, it is the miniature which is dominating this style.
Miniature has been a picture so far, but now it is a three-dimensional thing, you can walk around the work and see its other sides, too.
Persian art is a fantasy which is flying in dreams, a fantasy which is close to reality.
www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=250864   (1654 words)

  
 Artists at Artbrush: Oil and watercolour paintings
Hossein Fallahi born in 1938,learnt miniature by a famous miniaturist in Esfahan who was called Ali Sajjad.He was his student for 30 years, managing the master's workshop.When his master died in 1981, he established a workshop, painting Persian miniature in different styles.
Hossein and his workshop's miniatures are all in the traditional styles,and also from imagination, from Persian literature like poems by Hafez,Omar khayyam and Ferdowsi, and from Persian stories like love stories and Persian culture.
Persian miniature always is based on Imagination, on what the artist wills rather than on what really exist.The artist first considers a composition from his imagination and the colors he must use;then he does the details that show his experience.
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 Mughal School of Art
But even in the representation of everyday life, the emphasis of the miniature was on objectivity, on the need for veracity, and more minute and careful study of detail.
This was the practice in the Persian miniature and in some of the mediaeval Indian illustrations.
For this reason, the elegant calligraphic style of the Persian miniature, and the expressive robustness of line of the Rajasthani school, is but seldom found in Mughal art.
www.exoticindiaart.com /mughalschool.htm   (996 words)

  
 NN Gallery - PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS "SUFI PAINTINGS WITH CHINESE CHARACTER"
An exhibition of Persian Miniature Paintings 'Sufi Paintings with Chinese Character'will be on display at NN Gallery from 7 till 25 Jan 07.
Persian miniature painting, aptly named because of its diminutive size, has always been an important element of the ‘art of the book’.
Persian miniature painting reached its peak mainly during the Mongol and Timurid periods between 13 and 16 Centuries.
www.nngallery.com.my /exh/81/index.html   (449 words)

  
 Persian Art and Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Persian Gulf;: Holocene carbonate sedimentation and diagenesis in a shallow epicontinental sea
For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use.
Born in Tehran in 1919 to a family of solid middle class comforts and faded aristocratic roots, Hoveyda was an elegant, cultivated, well-read, and witty man, educated in Beirut, London, and Brussels.
persian.free-dict.de /shop/Music   (1138 words)

  
 Bibliography: Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures
Arberry, A. J., Minovi, M., and Blochet, E., The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, 3 vols., (Dublin: 1959).
Codrington, O., "Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian, Hindustani and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society," in JRAS (1982), pp.
Titley, Norah M., Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, (Austin: 1984).
www.islamicart.com /library/bib/miniatures.html   (758 words)

  
 Miniature Painting
Miniature painting flourished from the beginning of the 16th century down to the mid-19th century.
Over the post forty years, Indian 'miniature' painting have become increasingly popular in India and the West, among art scholars, collectors, artists and others, on account of their meticulous workmanship, passionately warm and vibrant scheme of colours, and for their variety of styles and themes.
Miniature paintings are paintings which have very high and fine details on themselves.
www.artandcraftsofindia.com /read/miniature_painting.htm   (518 words)

  
 Persian Gulf - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Persian Gulf, arm of the Arabian Sea, south-western Asia, between the Arabian Peninsula on the south-west and Iran on the north-east.
Persian Gulf States, ten states of the eastern Arabian Peninsula, located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.
Annual production of liquefied petroleum gas in 1994 was 305,000 barrels; petroleum and its products amounted to around 80 per cent of exports....
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 Visual Arts: A brief history of Persian Miniature
t is difficult to trace the origins of the art of Persian miniature, as it reached its peak mainly during the Mongol and Timurid periods (13th - 16th Century).
At the end of the 10th Century, Ferdowsi created his immortal epic poem "Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings), which at some 50 thousand couplets, relates through fact and legend, the history of the country from the creation of the world to the Arab conquests in the 7th Century.
One of the most important works for the illustrators of the period was "Shahnamah", and in Shiraz there were a large staff of painters dedicated to it.
www.iranchamber.com /art/articles/history_iranian_miniature.php   (1042 words)

  
 .: Persian Garden - Virtual Library - :.
Contracts may be regulated centuries been the setting of the Persian’s greatest happiness, offering a blessed escape from the efforts and perplexities of the public world, the dust and heat of the road or street, relief from the tribulations of the journey, the harsh glare, the dry, burning air, the weary hours of monotonous effort.
But in general the fixtures as shown in the miniatures or as actually found in situ are plain, often just the pipe itself,or at the most a lyre or other small ornament as center piece.
The strict geometry of Persian park layouts and the varied use of water were both admirably illustrated in the Farahabad or Sojourn of Happiness, the summer residence of Shah Sultan Husayn, built in 1700 (1112 H.), some six and a half miles (10 kilometers) from the center of Isfahan.
www.persiangarden.ir /Indexb.asp?IDD=636&IDDD=247&Langu=EN   (9140 words)

  
 ajabanzabAn.com explains how Persian is not Chinese - and how it is.
Persian script is a lot easier to learn than Chinese.
Persian might look complex, but it's an alphabet, and a pretty easy one at that once you get the basic shapes.
And don't fear the loss of "unity." There is plenty of unity to be found in diversity as we see from the Persian "Simorq" myths.
ajabanzaban.com /learn/alphabet/not_chinese.html   (1027 words)

  
 In Safavid Tradition
The Mughal miniature developed its own set of rules governing style, and artistic deformation of stylization of reality.
This painting has a markedly Persian style — a mannered miniature with dazzling colours in the luminous Safavid tradition.
It is executed in a manner closely resembling mid 16th century Persian which had figures with attenuated bodies, long necks, miniscule hands and narrow almond shaped eyes.
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 Miniature Persian
Home > Longhaired Cats > Persian > Persian Cat > Miniature Persian
These cats are known for their peculiar flat baby face with large eyes and a very short nose.
These cats are calm and gentle animals that are lovable and hard to resist.
www.gotcatsonline.com /persian/persian-cat/miniature-persian.shtml   (118 words)

  
 Miniature Painting | Miniatures | Miniature Art | Questia.com Online Library
Painting in Italy: From the Origins to the Thirteenth Century ("Miniatures and Mosaics of the 5th Century" begins on p.
MINIATURE PAINTING 159 European Miniature Painting 162...Enguerrand Charonton and the paintings and miniatures by Jean Fouquet.
In the lower center of the miniature, the three bearers of the cardinals personal...from a number of figures in Raphaels paintings, most notably the kneeling...
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 Persian Miniature Paintings, History of Persian Miniature art, Iranian Miniature Artists
For example, in the miniature piece at right, the variety of views is noticeable in the arrangement of objects: birds inhabit both the foreground and background of the piece, with the floral objects positioned in between.
Content and form are fundamental elements of Persian miniature painting, and miniature artists are renowned for their modest, subtle use of color.
Celebrating the 545th anniversary of the birth of Kamaliddin Bekhzad, the unsurpassed 15th century master of miniatures.
www.persianpaintings.com /miniat2.html   (190 words)

  
 Persia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Persia, the country in south-west Asia between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf now known as Iran.
Persian Language, also known by the contemporary name of Farsi (after the Parsa, or Fars, area of Persia), is the most widely spoken member of the...
Persian Literature, literature in the Modern Persian language of the Islamic era, written in Arabic script.
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 Persian Painting   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Miniatures II- Secular illustrations and Persian Painting There are very few secular illustrated texts which survive from late Antiquity or Byzantium.
Exhibit of 15th and 16th Persian paintings and poetry focuses on the themes of love and romance.
Persian Miniature Painting celebrates the beautiful miniature manuscript paintings of 15th and 16th century Persia.
www.aftabdaily.net /persian-painting.html   (277 words)

  
 Instruments
The oud is probably of Persian origin and was refined during the Arab golden age.
This image is from a Persian miniature showing a court musician, about the 15th century (1400's).
Turkish Miniature of entertainment/instruments and court entertainment (note the tambourine and two stringed instruments)
www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Music/Instruments.html   (336 words)

  
 Bibliography: Drawing, Painting, and Miniature
Miniature painting, a catalogue of the exhibition of the Sri Motichand Khajanchi collection held by the Lalit Kal¯a Akademi, 1960 by Karl Khandalavala, Moti Chandra and Pramod Chandra
Miniatures from Persian manuscripts : a catalogue and subject index of paintings from Persia, India, and Turkey in the British Library and the British Museum
Martin, F. The miniature painting and painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th century...
www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk /~aminm/Bibliography/Drawing_Painting_and_Miniature.html   (4570 words)

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