Exploring Visual Commonalities in Selected Artworks of Ilkhanid and Byzantine Periods

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. student of Research of Art,, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan, (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran

2 Professor and faculty member of the Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch

3 Department of Social Sciences, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh, Iran

4 Assistant professor and faculty of Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan branch of Isfahan

Abstract

Religious freedoms, wars and trade relations with Europe introduced the Mongols to the religion and visual culture of Christianity, and the Silk Road led to the prosperity of these relations and the transfer of the culture and art of other civilizations to Iran during the Ilkhanid period. On the other hand, the formation of Ruba Rashidi by Rashid al-Din Fazlullah Hamadani in 718-645 AH led to more collaboration between East and West artists and sought to improve the visual richness of Iranian art. The purpose of this research is to look for the image roots taken from Byzantine art and how these image bases are connected and the formation of special features in the painting of the Ilkhani period.This article has been done in a descriptive-analytical way using library sources and it deals with a comparative study of twenty selected contemporary paintings from the art of the Ilkhanid period and the art of the Byzantine period. The results of this research show that the art of the Ilkhanid period, with the influence of Byzantine art, initially accepted many of the visual features of the art of this civilization and by combining these features with Iranian painting, it caused the visual richness of this art. The most prominent features taken from Byzantine art in Iranian painting include the use of dry and contracted wrinkles of clothes, the use of cuckoo tail folds at the end of clothes and the use of Byzantine compositions and bright colors. It is flat.

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Sociology of Culture and Art

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 18 September 2023

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History

  • Receive Date: 02 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 11 September 2023
  • Accept Date: 18 September 2023

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