Female Figure

Female Figure
Northern Iran, circa 1350-800 B.C.
Sculpture
Reddish-brown burnished ware
Height: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); Length: 4 1/8 in. (10.6 cm)
Gift of Nasli M. Heeramaneck (M.76.174.182)

Two Ladies and a Child Reposing in the Harem

Armenian and Georgian by birth, Antoin Sevruguin (died 1933) spent most of his adult life as a resident of Iran. This photograph attributed to him offers a look into the harem of the Qajar ruler Nasir al-Din Shah (ruled 1848–1896). If the photograph is indeed Sevruguin's, it would indicate an unprecedented level of access to the private quarters of the ruler's court. Such openness speaks to the great enthusiasm for photography at the time, especially from the king himself.

Antoin Sevruguin

Some of Sevruguin's portraiture fed preexisting stereotypes of Easterners but nevertheless had a commercial value and today prove to be historical records of regional dress. Photographic studios in the nineteenth century advertised a type of picture known in French as "types". These were portraits of typical ethnic groups and their occupation. They informed the European viewer, unfamiliar with Persian culture, about the looks of regional dress, handcraf

Nader Jahanbani

Jahanbani was born into a family with a long military history. His father, Amanullah Jahanbani, was a lieutenant general, who served in the Persian Cossack Brigade with Reza Shah Pahlavi. He was a Qajar prince, great grandson of Fath Ali Shah. Nader's mother, Helen Kasminsky, was from the Russian aristocracy in Petrograd.

Taq Kasra

Taq Kasra (‎‎called Eyvān-e Kasra meaning Iwan of Khosrau), is a Sassanid-era Persian monument located near the modern town of Salman Pak, Iraq. It is the only visible remaining structure of the ancient city of Ctesiphon. The archway is the largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork in the world. The Taq Kasra is now all that remains above ground of a city that was, for seven centuries—from the 2nd century BC to the 7th century AD—the main capital of the Iranian successor dynasties of the Parthians and Sassanids.

Shirazian Women

The first signs of the unveiling can be addressed without scavenger T'Ayn and also in the court of Shah Qajar and the intellectual circles. The Iranian women's rights activists in the constitutional era and the beginning of the reign of Reza Shah opened the debate on criticism of the veil. Recognition and mandatory multi-year, but it goes back to the reign of Reza Shah.

Tazieh and Parde-khani

In Persian tradition, Tazieh and Parde-khani, inspired by historical and religious events, symbolize epic spirit and resistance. The common themes are heroic tales of love and sacrifice and of resistance against the evil. While in the west the two major genres of drama have been comedy and tragedy, in Persia, Tazieh seems to be the dominant genre. Considered as Persian opera, Tazieh resembles European opera in many respects.

Kashan women

Abul Azad Khan Maraghaee to assist his wife, Shahnaz Roshdieh (daughter of Mirza Hassan Roshdieh) in Solar-August 1299 magazine called "a lady" was released. This publication was released at a time when Zadmraghh of time before secret society known as "Assembly unveiling" was established and the meetings of the Forum with the participation of men and women in his house and the other members was formed. In these sessions, people like Yahya Dawlatabadi participated and the discussion began.

Lorestan women

The first signs of the unveiling can be addressed without scavenger T'Ayn and also in the court of Shah Qajar and the intellectual circles. The Iranian women's rights activists in the constitutional era and the beginning of the reign of Reza Shah opened the debate on criticism of the veil. Recognition and mandatory multi-year, but it goes back to the reign of Reza Shah.

Persepolis old picture

Persepolis is near the small river Pulvar, which flows into the river Kur (derived from Persian word Cyrus / Kuroush). The site includes a 125,000 square metre terrace, partly artificially constructed and partly cut out of a mountain, with its east side leaning on Kuh-e Rahmet ("the Mountain of Mercy"). The other three sides are formed by retaining walls, which vary in height with the slope of the ground. Rising from 5–13 metres (16–43 feet) on the west side was a double stair. From there, it gently slopes to the top. To create the level terrace, depressions were filled with soil and heavy rocks, which were joined together with metal clips.

Sadegh Hedayat with his Father

Sadeq Hedayat, the foremost short story writer of Iran, was born in 1903. He was of a highly educated aristocratic family. After finishing his primary education, he was sent to a French school to study French. He received his secondary education there, and was sent to Europe on a government scholarship to study dentistry. He shortly gave up dentistry for engineering, and engineering for the study of pre-Islamic languages and ancient culture of Iran. Young Hedayat's picture In Europe, Hedayat was exposed to world literature, especially European literature, and read the works of Kafka, Poe, and Dostoevski.

Fereydoun Farrokhzad with his son

Fereydoun Farrokhzad was born in Chahar Raheh Gomrok (Gomrok Intersection), a neighborhood in Tehran, Iran.[citation needed] He was the fourth of seven children (Pouran, Amir(masoud),Forough, Fereydoun, Gloria, Mehrdad and Mehran). After graduating from high school he went to Germany and Austria for his post-secondary education.

His most successful and famous TV show was "Mikhakeh Noghrei" (Silver Carnation), and his radio show which aired every other Friday mornings called Jom'eh Bazzar (Friday Baazzaar).

Forogh Farokhzad

Forugh (also spelled Forough) was born in Tehran to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (originally fromTafresh city) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. The third of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Pooran Farrokhzad, Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girl's school for the manual arts. At age sixteen she was married to Parviz Shapour, an acclaimed satirist. Farrokhzad continued her education with classes in painting and sewing and moved with her husband to Ahvaz. A year later, she bore her only child, a son named Kāmyār (subject of A Poem for You). Within two years, in 1954, Farrokhzad and her husband divorced; Parviz won custody of the child. She moved back to Tehran to write poetry and published her first volume, entitled The Captive, in 1955.

Sadegh Hedayat With Teres

Hedayat was born to a northern Iranian aristocratic family in Tehran (his great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat was himself a well respected writer and worked in the government, as did other relatives) and was educated at Collège Saint-Louis (French catholic school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916). In 1925, he was among a select few students who travelled to Europe to continue their studies. There, he initially went on to study engineering in Belgium, which he abandoned after a year to study architecture in France.

Iranian woman

Many of Antoin’s photographs were taken from 1870-1930. Because Sevruguin spoke Persian as well as other languages, he was capable of communicating to different social strata and tribes from his country Iran. His photos of the royal court, harems, and mosques and other religious monuments were compared to the other Western photographers in Persia. The reigning Shah, Nasir al-Din Shah (reigned from 1846–1896) took a special interest in photography and many royal buildings and events were portrayed by Sevruguin.

Shirazian Musicians and dancers

Persian dance refers to the dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture, and language of the local people, and can range from sophisticated reconstructions of refined court dances to energetic folk dances. The population of Iran includes many ethnicities, including numerous Iranian tribal and ethnic groups; Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Turkmen, Jews, Armenian, Georgian peoples, some of which can be found within the borders of modern-day Iran.

Persian soldier

With thousands of years of recorded history, and due to an unchanging geographic (and subsequently geopolitical) condition, Iran (previously known as Persia in the West until 1935) has had a long, varied, and checkered military culture and history, ranging from triumphant and unchallenged ancient military supremacy affording effective superpower status in its day, to a series of near catastrophic defeats (beginning with the destruction of Elam) at the hand of previously subdued and conquered peripheral nations (including Greece, Macedon, Arabia, and the Asiatic nomadic tribes at the Eastern boundary of the lands traditionally home to the Iranian people).

Malek Jahan Khanom, Mahd-e Olia

Malek Jahan Khanom, Mahd-e Olia (born Malek Jahan Khanom Qajar Ghovanloo, 26 February 1805 - 2 April 1873) was a Persian princess of the Qajar dynasty, consort of Mohammad Shah Qajar of Persia (reign 1834-1848) and the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. She was the granddaughter of Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar of Persia and the cousin of her spouse, Mohammad Shah Qajar.