[arthistorymajors] THIS THURSDAY!! Talk with Dr. Amy S. Landau on 17th c. Safavid Shahnama Painting!

Art History Majors arthistorymajors at uci.edu
Tue Apr 28 09:02:23 PDT 2009


The Department of Art History requests that you please join us for a 
talk with...

Dr. Amy S. Landau as she presents, "A View to Martyrdom: The Iconography 
of a Seventeenth-Century Safavid Shahnama Painting"
On April 30th from 5-7pm in 254 Humanities Hall

This lecture explores the iconography of a seventeenth-century Safavid 
painting “the Beheading of Iraj” that fuses aspects of Persian and 
European approaches to representation for the retelling of one of the 
great works of Iranian literature, the Shahnama (the Book of Kings). The 
painting, which has been attributed to Muhammad Zaman ibn Haji Yusuf, 
master of farangi-sazi (or, the Europeanized style), was adjoined to one 
of the prized codices of the royal collection. With new pictorial tools 
and the intention to meet evolving expectations of the image on behalf 
of the Safavid viewer, Muhammad Zaman revisits the tradition-bound art 
of the illustrated manuscript. In his depiction of kings of the ancient 
past, the imperial artist refers to contemporary political concerns and 
religious sensitivities, allowing for multivalent readings of the page. 
We shall focus primarily on the complex notions of martyrdom, past and 
contemporary, local and foreign, embedded in this masterpiece of Persian 
manuscript art.

A talk presented by Dr. Amy S. Landau, Wallis Annenberg Curatorial 
Fellow in Art of the MiddleEast, LACMA.

-- 
Madeline Faye Mullens
Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Art History 
University of California, Irvine
Phone (949) 824-1124
Fax (949) 824-2509
mmullens at uci.edu


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