Open AccessForm and Meaning of Rostam and Esfandiy?r Battle in a Coffee House Painting by Mohammad Modabber
Author(s) -
Leila Taghavi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environment conservation journal/environment conservation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-5124
pISSN - 0972-3099
DOI - 10.36953/ecj.2015.se1616
Subject(s) - battle , painting , meaning (existential) , epic , dignity , literature , honor , art , art history , visual arts , history , aesthetics , philosophy , ancient history , law , computer science , epistemology , political science , operating system
Coffee house painting was a new phenomenon in the history of Persian painting, which, along with the preservation of all rational religious and traditional art values, was born to the need of the people and to respect people’s beliefs. Shahnameh stories were a proper field for creation of epic images of chivalric men who always stood up heroically to the honor and dignity of their mother land at any time, like RostamDastan.In this regard, a coffee house painting of “The battle of Rostam and Esfandiy?r” by Mohammad Modabber from Shahnameh epic text is examined to understand the meaning of the image by analyzing its lines and patterns. Opening this path and through the way passed to understand the meaning, recognizing the special contracts used by Mohammad Modabber in the coffee house painting of “The battle of Rostam and Esfandiy?r” and its various implications sound highly necessary.