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Qajar portraits

Figurative Imagery in Islamic Art

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Scene in a mosque, from the Falnama (Book of Omens) of Shah Tahmasp I, Iran, 1550/1560, colours and gold on paper, 59 x 44.5 cm, MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève, Legacy Jean Pozzi, 1971. Photo: MAH, André Longchamp. Figurative imagery in Islamic art

According to common belief, Islam has an absolute ban on images and is hostile to pictorial representations, quite in contrast to Christianity. But is this actually true? Are images categorically forbidden in Islam? And what about Christianity: does not Moses’s… Continue reading →

MAY 2022, Newspaper figurative imagery in Islamic art, Figures in Islamic art, Islamic Art, Mughal portraits, Qajar portraits, Religious Islamic art
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