“Word and Image/Word in Image: Inscribed Manuscript Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Iran” with Dr. Massumeh Farhad

Thursday, November 18, 2021
6:30 pm | Virtual

Please join the Department of Art and The Fralin Museum of Art virtually on November 18, 2021 at 6:30 PM for “Word and Image/Word in Image: Inscribed Manuscript Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Iran” with Dr. Massumeh Farhad of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.

"It has been long accepted that the themes of Persian manuscript paintings are determined by the accompanying text. Between the late fifteenth century and the mid-sixteenth century, poetic, religious, and panegyric inscriptions were inserted into some of these paintings, adding new meaning to the images and complicating the text/image relationship. This presentation will consider a number of important later Timurid and early Safavid illustrated manuscripts, including the celebrated Tahmasb Shahnama (Book of kings), to examine this artistic phenomenon in greater detail."