The incident of ashura in Qajar paintings

Shayestehfar, Mahnaz

doi:10.22070/negareh.2007.5212

The incident of ashura in Qajar paintings

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Mahnaz Shayestehfar

tarbiyat modares university-tehran

10.22070/negareh.2007.5212

Abstract

The incident of ashura remains as a significant event associated with the kin of
the great prophet of islam and has been in the centre of attention for artists in the
various of painting.
The importance of Ashura lies in the fact that when imam Hussein was martyred
and the women and children were held captive and taken from one city to another
and also the famous speeches of zeinab and forth imam to leaders of Umavids it did
not only reveal the face Umavids, but also strengthened the foundation of shi`ah
and their sacrifice be came a Paradigm for all the shi’ah muslims in the world.
In the Qajar period, the political and social status was ready to accept paintings
with the content of Ashura . after the constitutional monarchy , religious painting
was mainly confied to vulgar and colloquial paintings which were mostly created
by courtier and inexpert painting. They applied techniques such as coffeehouse
paintings , painting under glass , and painting using lithography.
The follings, questions will be answered.
1.what is the origin of religious painting in the Qajar period? And what are its
characteristics.
2.what are the techniques applied in religious paintings ?
3. how does the incident of Ashura influence the paintings?
The compilation of subject matter and data used in this article is extracted from
library , record and thesis materials,Visual and Written , and the conduction of the
theme is descriptive , historical and analytical.

Keywords

Persian painting

Ashura

Qajar era

content and meaning

technique

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