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Conference - Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag, London, 10 May

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Submitted by Margaret Graves on Friday, March 7, 2014

From:  Moran, Sussie <Sussie.Moran@courtauld.ac.uk>
Date:  March 5, 2014

Symposium: Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag
Organised by Dr. Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

Converging on the Object: The Courtauld Metal Bag symposium is part of the Research Forum programming at the Courtauld Institute of Art and takes place toward the closing of the Courtauld Gallery of Art’s exhibition Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq, 20 February - 18 May 2014.

Date: 10 May 2014

Time: 9:30 AM – 17:45 PM

Place: The Courtauld Institute of Art, Kenneth Clark Lecture Hall

Publication - Farîd-od-Dîn `Attâr: The Canticle of the Birds Illustrated through Persian and Eastern Islamic Art

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Éditions Diane de Selliers presents

Farîd-od-Dîn `Attâr: The Canticle of the Birds Illustrated through Persian and Eastern Islamic Art

Poetry translated from the Persian by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi

Art from the 13th to 17th centuries commented introduced and analyzed by Michael Barry

Awarded France's 2013 Montherlant Prize for Writing on Art
by the National Academy of Fine Arts Académie des Beaux-Arts

Awarded Iran's 2014 World Book Prize of the Year on Persian Civilization
by the National Academy of Iran
The ceremony was held in Tehran on 8 February 2014

Worldwide Publication Date : February 2014

Regular edition : 295 $ / 195 £ / 230 €
Limited, numbered edition : 395 $ / 295 £ / 320 € 

Seminar - Interdisciplinary methodology for studying the Persian figurative pilgrimage mural paintings of shrines in Iran

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Submitted by Pedram Khosronejad on Friday, March 7, 2014

“Anthropological Study of Iconography in Iranian Shi’ite Pilgrimage: The Case Study of 18th-20th century Mural Paintings in Imamzadehs’”
By
Dr.P. Khosronejad
Visiting Overseas Associate Professor
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

3rd talk:
Interdisciplinary methodology for studying the Persian figurative pilgrimage mural paintings of shrines in Iran

Venue:
(University of Osaka, 8th March 2014, 2 pm)

Until today, the unique Persian figurative mural paintings of the shrines of Shiite saints in Iran have not attracted much attention from Western scholars. However, they have been the subject of very limited reports and have also appeared as peripheral topics in other research.

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