Analysis of visual structure of mourning in three selected paintings with common subject of mourning in patriarch, Timurid and early Safavid periods.

Khamenai, Mahsa; Khazaie, Mohammad

doi:10.22070/negareh.2010.5133

Analysis of visual structure of mourning in three selected paintings with common subject of mourning in patriarch, Timurid and early Safavid periods.

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mahsa Khamenai

Mohammad khazaie

TMU

10.22070/negareh.2010.5133

Abstract

Bereavement issues are always regarded by artists to depict them. By studying and surveying of images which are associated with mourning subjects during the height of Persian painting periods, and structural analysis of these images, could be finding out an special methods in illustrating contents with the subject of mourning and relationship between images and text. Also by this way could suggest visual methods and styles to illustrate mourning issues in contemporary era.
This article has tried to analyze visual structure of paintings with the subject of mourning in periods of Illkhans, Timurid and early Safavid.
In this research association of mourning subject with visual structure of illustrations in boom periods of Persian painting has been analyzed.

Keywords

Mourning

Structure

Illustration

Illkhans

Timurid

early Safavid