{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (7)]}[20th April 1991]

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‘Three major painting styles, or schools (excluding a number of interesting provincial schools), existed in the Safavid period. … [In]* one school of miniature painting...** [the]* compositions are complex, individual faces appear in crowded masses, there is much diversification in landscape, and, despite a few ferocious details of monsters or of strongly caricaturized poses and expressions, these book illustrations are concerned with an idealised version of life.... [Artists]* continued and modified, each in his own way, the ideal of a balance *** between an overall composition and precise rendering details.

‘The miniatures of the second tradition of Safavid painting seem at first to be like a detail out of the previously discussed school. The same purity of colour, elegance of poses, interest in details, and assertion of the individual figure is found. Aqa Reza and Reza Abasi (both active around 1600[ce]) excelled in these extraordinary portrayals of poets, musicians, courtiers and aristocratic life in general.

‘In both traditions of painting, the beautiful personages depicted frequently are satirised;# this note of satirical criticism is even more pronounced in portraiture of the time. But it is in pen or brush drawings, mostly dating from the 17^th century, that the third aspect of Safavid painting appeared: an interest in genre, or the depiction of minor events of daily life (e.g., a washerwoman at work, a tailor sewing, an animal). #*|With stunning precision Safavid artists showed a whole society falling apart with a cruel #** sympathy totally absent from the literary documents of the time.’|#*

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**(‘large colourful miniatures all … executed in a grand manner’)

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 98

*** cf [[Redbook9:98][19910414:1104d]{Islamic Art – The Word (1) [continued (4)]}[14th April 1991]&f] 98-99

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#*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 98

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