A Comparative study of Iranian “Interior Hybrid” paint works and paintings of Mongolian Sultans in India and Archimboldo’s- “Camel and Cameleer, The Camel-riding harper fairy and The Earth’s Portrait”

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate professor of the art faculty, Zahedan, Sistan & Baluchestan, Iran

2 invited instructor of technical and vocational faculty, Shahroud, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

Epics, legends, novels, and generally literature and art of any different civilization have always been the opportunity for fictitious creatures to be of great importance and attraction. A variant of such creatures is named “hybrid interiors” whose interior bodies are a combination and transfusion of different things ranging from objects to natural species sometimes that eventually represent figures of animals or human. Hybrid interiors were generally used in Iranian and Mongolian India’s paintings as well as Archim Boldo’s portraits. This paper aims to find shared features between the three groups of works mentioned, which assimilates associated works of each group to those of other groups very closely. For that purpose, the following questions need to be addressed:
What similarities can be found between Archim Boldo’s painting and Iranian and Mongolian works? What sort of creatures are dominant in all of the three works that are subject to this study?
Arrangement, composition, and sorts of creatures and objects included in pictures of the Iranian and Indian paintings as well as those of Archim Boldo share many similarities while combinations are also noteworthy. In all three cases, figures of head or body of a living creature as profiles of human or animal are observed, within which are full of more human or animal figures. What is more, in all three paintings, animal figures are the most dominant components constituting the paintings among which mammals are the most frequent figure used to draw the whole body of the camel or the Earth’s portrait. The paper uses a descriptive comparative approach. 

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Negareh Journal
Volume 11, Issue 37
June 2016
Pages 63-71

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  • Receive Date: 25 April 2015
  • Revise Date: 02 June 2015
  • Accept Date: 20 October 2015

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