Zarrīn Fām; Biannual journal of Museum Studies

Zarrīn Fām; Biannual journal of Museum Studies

A Comparative Study of Text and Image in the Coffee House Paintings of the Battle of Rostam and Ashkobus

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Sahar Zekavat 1
Majid Mazidi Sharafabadi 2
Ali Zarei 3
1 Ph.D. Candidate of Comparative and Analytical History of Islamic Art, Faculty of Art, Shahed University, Tehran
2 (Corresponding Author) Ph.D. Candidate of Comparative and Analytical History of Islamic Art, Faculty of Art, Shahed University, Tehran
3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, University of Birjand
10.30481/museum.2024.375089.1015
Abstract
Portraying the Shahnameh stories and especially the story of the battle of Rostam and Ashkobus is one of the common subjects of the coffee house painting. In illustrating stories, artists create their works by referring to the original text of the story and relying on their imagination and the artistic knowledge of the past. Accordingly, the comparative study of text and image in the coffee house paintings of the battle of Rostam and Ashkobus as one of the important stories of the Shahnameh seems necessary. Knowing how the scene of the battle of Rostam and Ashkobus is represented through coffee house painters, identifying the degree of conformity of the paintings with the poems of the Shahnameh, and identifying the similarities and differences between the samples and the poems of the Shahnameh are among the objectives of this article. The present research is a theoretical study and has been conducted with a descriptive-analytical method and comparative approach, and the library, documentary and image information has been analyzed with a qualitative method. Case examples of the research include 6 works of coffee house paintings by Hossein Qoller Aghasi, Hossein Hamdani, Mansour Vafaei, Hassan Esmailzadeh and Mohammad Farahani.
Keywords
coffee house painting
Rostam
Ashkobus
Shahnameh
Subjects
Zarrīn Fām; Biannual journal of Museum Studies
Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
Volume 2, Issue 2 spring and summer (2023-2024)
February 2024
Pages 179-198

  • Receive Date 01 December 2022
  • Revise Date 10 April 2023
  • Accept Date 07 September 2023
  • Publish Date 23 August 2023