Eurasian Studies Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | «A mari usque ad mare»
Chapter | Una miniatura safavide con scena di caccia

Una miniatura safavide con scena di caccia

Abstract

This miniature has been bought in Iran by Gianclaudio Macchiarella when he was acting as cultural attaché at the beginning of the Nineties of the last century. It is kept in a private collection in Bologna. The miniature depicts a prince hunting onagers (wild asses) in a classical and conventional mountain landscape, with trees, flowers and a stream in the middle of the page, and other figures, mainly attendants. The miniature belongs to the Safavid period and can be dated to the seventeenth century. The second part of the article is devoted the aesthetics of Persian miniatures with an analysis of some passages of the novel Benim Adım Kırmızı (My name is Red), published by the Turkish Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk.


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Language: it

Keywords Safavid painting • Hunting scenes • Orhan Pamuk • Islamic aesthetics • Islamic iconography

Copyright © 2016 Giovanni Curatola. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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