CHEHEL SOTUN MUSEUM - Isfahan, Iran
Reflections, mirrors, paintings large and small, high columns, decorative ceilings, flowers and gardens. All part of this 17th century palace reception pavilion.
VANK CATHEDRAL - Esfahan, Iran
This Armenian Orthodox Cathedral is famous for its extensive interior art and decoration.
Iran Isfahan province, Textile painting handicraft قلمزني پارچه استان اصفهان ايران
March 25, 2016 (Persian calendar 1395/1/6)
Isfahan province (استان اصفهان)
Iran Isfahan province, Textile painting handicraft
قلمزني پارچه استان اصفهان ايران
Iran Marble palace, 3000 years ancient antiques, Tehran كاخ مرمر موزه هنر ايران آثار سه هزار ساله
January 27, 2020 (Persian calendar 1398/11/7)
Tehran province (استان تهران)
Tehran city (شهر تهران)
Marble palace (كاخ مرمر)
35.689072°N, 51.401789°E
The Marble Palace (Persian: کاخ مرمر, Kākh-e Marmar) is one of the historic buildings and royal residences in Tehran, Iran.
It is located in the city centre, but the location was a quiet quarter of Tehran when the palace was erected.
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, the palace was used as a museum until 1981.
Then it was given to the expediency discernment council. Local people reported that the palace had been used by the senior politicians in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The historical items used at the palace, including furniture, are being exhibited at the decorative arts museum in Tehran.
Now Marble palace كاخ مرمر is the Art museum of Iran موزه هنر ايران.
Iran Marble palace, 3000 years ancient antiques, Tehran city
كاخ مرمر موزه آثار باستاني سه هزار ساله تهران موزه هنر ايران
Gardens in Iranian Art
Explore details and the broader context of a page from Folio from a Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones), by Jami.
Chehel Sotoon, palace/museum Isfahan, Iran
Chehel Sotoon is a pavilion in the middle of a park at the far end of a long pool, in Isfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas II to be used for his entertainment and receptions. In this palace, Shah Abbas II and his successors would receive dignitaries and ambassadors, either on the terrace or in one of the stately reception halls.
The name, meaning Forty Columns in Persian, was inspired by the twenty slender wooden columns supporting the entrance pavilion, which, when reflected in the waters of the fountain, are said to appear to be forty.
The palace contains many frescoes and paintings on ceramic.
The magnificent talar or verandah is the dominant feature of the palace and the slender columns, over 40m tall, which support it are cut from single chenar trees (platanus orientalis). The roof is also made from chenar tree beams and inset with complex decoration. The surface of much of the throne room is still covered with mirrored glass and this probably also was used on the pillars, as it was in the palace of Ali Qapu, so as to give the appearance of a roof floating in the air.
Now the Palace is a museum.
Iranian master tilers make traditional blue tiles for Islamic architecture
(5 Jun 2009)
Isfahan - 3 May 2009
1. Wide dome and minarets of Emam Mosque covered with blue and turquoise tiles and arabesque
2. Zoom out of Emam Mosque's minarets (fish eyed lens effect)
3. Close-up of intricate flower-shaped tiles
4. Tilt-up from tiles to artist painting on tiles in workplace
5. Close-up of Hossein Mosadegh Zadeh
6. Close-up of Mosadegh Zadeh's hand drawing arabesque on tiles
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Mosadegh Zadeh, experienced Iranian tiler:
The art of tiling is nearly exclusive to Isfahan. My ancestors were also artists and all of them were from Isfahan. This art has found way in other cities too but its birthplace is Isfahan. Most of the buildings and structures that we tile have Quranic verses written on them.
8. Various shots of tile workshop and completed tiles.
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Mosadegh Zadeh, experienced Iranian tiler:
Because the blue colour strengthens the eyesight. It gives you brightness, beauty and makes you joyful. Blue makes you lively and happy. By blue, we mean turquoise of course.
10. Close-up of tiles and Mosadegh Zadeh's hand drawing arabesque on tiles
11. Mid of Mosadegh Zadeh in his workplace
12. Pan right to left, close shot of intricate patterns painted on tiles
13. Tilt-up, interior of Isfahan's traditional bazaar
14. Various shots, Mosadegh Zadeh chiselling in workshop
15. Wide pan of tile artworks in the workshop
16. Close-up of Mosadegh Zadeh's hand polishing a turquoise-coloured tile
17. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hossein Mosadegh Zadeh, experienced Iranian tiler:
The sound of the chisel hitting the tile gives me a sense of happiness and I really enjoy it. It is like a musician playing a piece for you and making you happy. I really enjoy working with the chisel, creating inlaid works on tile and pasting them onto historic buildings.
18. Wide of a mosque dome under tiling (fish eye lens)
19. Various shots of workers on scaffolding repairing a mosque dome
20. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ahmed Mosadegh Zadeh, tiler and son of Hossein Mosadegh Zadeh:
This traditional and original art has been bequeathed to us from our ancestors and we will continue it. Tiling thirty meters of a dome will take us 6 months to tile.
21. Close-up of workers' hand pasting a piece of tile on dome
22. Wide shot of mosque's dome and minarets' covered with turquoise tiles
23. Tilt-up of detailed patterns on walls of mosque
24. Zoom out of geometrical patterns formed with small tiles
25. Wide of pedestrians walking past the mosque's entrance (fish eye lens)
26. Pan of mosque's ceiling decorated with tiles
LEAD IN :
The city of Isfahan in central Iran is perhaps best known for its Uranium Conversion Facility, part of Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
Isfahan is also a centre of Islamic art in the country, and home to a magnificent complex of buildings.
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The bright blue domes and towering minarets of Isfahan in central Iran date back as far as the 11th century.
The towers are covered in detailed tiles, which are carefully crafted.
Mosadegh Zadeh's ancestors were master tilers and now he continues the family tradition.
He says that although the craft is now common in other Iranian cities, Isfahan tilers were the first to use this style.
The ceramics are fashioned into many designs and a great variety of shapes.
Zadeh says the most popular colour is a turquoise blue which gives you brightness, beauty and makes you joyful.
The creation of a tile begins with raw sketches and ends with multi coloured intricate designs as lively and vibrant as the traditional Isfahan bazaar.
After the tiles are painted the tiler sets to work with his chisel and hammer.
The final stage of the process is best left to younger men.
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50+ Mesmerizing Mosque Ceilings That Highlight The Wonders Of Islamic Architecture
Mosques throughout the Muslim world have some of the most intricate and exquisite architecture ever created by mankind. There’s too much amazing architecture in them to cover in just one post, so we decided to focus simply on the mosque’s ceilings – something the faithful might see when they look up to the heavens.
These images show just how heavily mathematics and geometry featured into Islamic architecture in the Arab world and elsewhere. The repeating perfect spirals and geometric forms are reminiscent of the intricate mandalas found in Buddhist art as well.
Iran is known for its extraordinary collection of stunning mosques, which we wrote about here, but there are beautiful mosques elsewhere as well. We’d love to see your photos of amazing mosque ceilings submitted below and invite you to vote for your favorites!
Iran Persian Seven colors tiles artwork report گزارشي از كاشي هفت رنگ دستساز ايران
June 5, 2019 (Persian calendar 1398/3/15)
Persian seven colors tiles
With an ancient history and civilization in art and an impressive background in pottery, as well as large reserves of raw materials, Iran was a suitable ground for tile and mosaic industry at the end of the 2nd millennium BC.
During the Safavid period, mosaic ornaments were often replaced by a haft rang هفت رنگ (seven colors) technique. Pictures were painted on plain rectangle tiles, glazed and fired afterwards.
Besides economic reasons, the seven colors method gave more freedom to artists and was less time-consuming. It was popular until the Qajar period, when the palette of colors was extended by yellow and orange.
The seven colors of Haft Rang tiles were usually black, white, ultramarine, turquoise, red, yellow and fawn.
In the Safavid period, tile craft reached its peak of progress so that the tile-works of Shah Abbas time in Isfahan are still unique in terms of beauty and color stability. An example of this tile-work is present in Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque in Isfahan which is the world’s most beautiful moaragh.
Safavid mosques and schools are generally decorated with a cover of tiles both inside and outside. While the use of moaragh tiles was ongoing, Shah Abbas, who was hasty to see his incomplete religious buildings, encouraged the use of seven colors tile rapid technique.
In the Safavid era, seven colors tile was largely used in Isfahan’s palaces and installing rectangular tiles inside large frames created exquisite scenes with portrait elements and different personalities.
But oral education and transmission of traditional arts within families or guilds have resulted in elimination of many innovative traditional techniques of tile-setting or tile-work in present time.
The tile is still beautiful and valuable. But nowadays in Iran, the use of traditional tiles is limited to religious monuments or those buildings that insist to pretend traditional. Most of what is built is an imitation of past monuments in a lower level and a trace of creativity can be hardly seen.
Spread of Western culture in the native culture and the resulting historical discontinuity has led tile, as a traditional element, not to properly link and function with modern architecture and is mostly considered as a museum issue.
Iran Persian Seven colors tiles artwork report
گزارشي از كاشي هفت رنگ دستساز ايران
Iranian Sculptor
A very interesting Iranian wooden sculpture showing different aspects of Iranian culture.
Glenn Murcutt Architect - Mosque Construction Video
7683 Kunst Press TV IRAN Decorative Glassware
Persian traditional crafts: Brocade
The art of making traditional persian brocades
Director, Camera & Editing: Amin Safaripour
Year: 2016
Iran Pottery workers & Ceramic handicrafts, Isfahan city كوزه گري و دستسازهاي سفالين اصفهان ايران
April 3, 2017 (Persian calendar 1396/1/14)
Isfahan province (استان اصفهان)
Isfahan city (شهر اصفهان)
Iran Pottery workers & Ceramic handicrafts, Isfahan city
كوزه گري و دستسازهاي سفالين اصفهان ايران
Mosque in Iran in the 1960's -- Film 90304
Iran in the early 1960's. Blue decoration on mosque, streets, river
IRAN - Mt. Bisotun - I
IRAN - The Wonderland!
Mount Bisotun near the city of Kermanshah is a World Heritage Site. Here you'll witness history from 4 ancient empires with archaeological remains from 520 BCE to the late 1600s
Credits:
Music:
The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival of the Birds & Transformation
Photos:
Soheil Callage (Iran trip - April 2018)+ some from the Internet
Video By:
Magic-Retouch.com
This is PART 1 of 3 videos covering the history of Mt. Bisotun and the city of Kermanshah's Taq-e Bostan reliefs.
The video is focused on Behistun Inscriptions at Mt. Bisotun. This is a Show & Tell by Darius the Great (in his own words) on how he rose to power as the 4th king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Behistun Inscriptions are written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (Akkadian) languages using the Cuneiform script.
Use the link below to see and hear the entire Behistun Inscription and what Darius had to say (about 2:30 minutes):
The links to Stephen Shephard sites:
(Cyrus & Trump Coin)
Isfahan Iranian Handmade Carpet
Isfahan Carpet TREE OF LIFE
Isfahan rugs/carpets are on either silk or cotton foundation.
Beautiful Blue and White Inverted Dome Ceiling Mosque Art at Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur
Iran / Beautiful Kerman Part 21
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Kerman:
Pistachio, Kerman is the center of producing the pistachio in Iran. More than 95% of Iran pistachio is produced in Kerman. Henna a flowering plant which is another souvenir of kerman.
Kerman is a city in southeastern Iran with 1,150,650 inhabitants (2015), situated on a sandy plain 1749 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kerman with 2,652,413 inhabitants (2006) and an area of 181,714 km². Kerman is the largest carpet producing and exporting center in Iran. Kerman is a large producer of pistachios on the world market. The province is rich in minerals, like copper, coal, chromium, lead, zinc, uranium and aluminum, but mining has remained on a small scale. In recent times crude oil has been discovered, but is yet not exploited.
See
Bazaar - Explore the arcades of the bazaar, indulge in the smells of oriental spices.
Gonbad-e-Jabaliyeh - An amazing dome in the east of Kerman.
Ganjalikhan bath - A historic bath
Mouyedi Ice-House - There are several small-gardens around this ice-house which were filled with the water in winter, then after that the water iced, the ices lead to the ice-house to use in summer.
San'ati museum - An interesting museum in contemporary arts of Kerman.
Vakil traditional tea house - An attractive traditional tea house in the covered bazar.
Ganjali Khan Square - It is similar to Naghshe Jahan and Mirchakhmaq squares. The bazaars are located in three side of square and in the fourth side, the Ganjali Khan School is established.
Ganjali Khan Mosque - It is located in the north-west of square and near Ganjalikhan School. It was constructed in 1007 A.H.
Zarabkhaneh museum - It is located in the north side of square. This eight-angle place includes an arch, four porticoes and four booths in four views. Now, it has changed to coin museum.
Jameh mosque - The Friday mosque.
Moshtri-ye-Moshtak Ali Shah - A holy shrine.
Malek mosque (Imam mosque) - A gem of a mosque!
National Library, housed in a former a textile factory.
Museum of the Holy Defense - Interesting installation in the courtyard, depicting a battlefield in the Shatt-el-arab. Admission 3000 IRR.
Takht-e-Darya-Gholi-Beyg - A monument in the side of the hills in the east of Kerman.
Ghal'e Dokhtar - A historical castle in the hills in the east of Kerman; attributed to the Ashkanian era.
Ghal'e Ardeshir - A historical castle in the hills in the east of Kerman; attributed to the Ashkanian era.
Go next
Visit Rayen Castel with a magnificent old citadel (similar to Bam).
Mahan is only 30 kilometers away. Thereby you can see Shazdeh's garden which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and about 5.5 hectares with a rectangular shape and a wall around it. The garden is a fine example of Persian gardens that take advantage of suitable natural climate. As well as the Shah-Ne'matollah-e-Vali monument.