{"title":"COMPOSITION AND CONTINUITY IN SASANIAN ROCK RELIEFS","authors":"Emma Thompson","doi":"10.2143/IA.43.0.2024052","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The cliffs of Iran are adorned with rock reliefs from every period of its long history. During the years that the Sasanian dynasty ruled Iran, artists added to this collection considerably. These monuments are individual capsules of information on the general political, religious, historical and artistic milieu of the time. This paper presents a method for furthering our understanding of the Sasanian period through an analysis of the composition of each Sasanian relief. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that composition will serve as an indicator of artistic continuity and change and encode an artistic signature of sorts indicating the artists' background and training. The initial results suggest that the reliefs of the early Sasanian period reflect the work of artists from at least two schools of art.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"43 1","pages":"299-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.43.0.2024052","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranica Antiqua","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.43.0.2024052","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The cliffs of Iran are adorned with rock reliefs from every period of its long history. During the years that the Sasanian dynasty ruled Iran, artists added to this collection considerably. These monuments are individual capsules of information on the general political, religious, historical and artistic milieu of the time. This paper presents a method for furthering our understanding of the Sasanian period through an analysis of the composition of each Sasanian relief. The analysis is based on the hypothesis that composition will serve as an indicator of artistic continuity and change and encode an artistic signature of sorts indicating the artists' background and training. The initial results suggest that the reliefs of the early Sasanian period reflect the work of artists from at least two schools of art.
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Iranica Antiqua is one of the leading scholarly journals covering studies on the civilization of pre-Islamic Iran in its broadest sense. This annual publication, edited by the Department for Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Gent University, Belgium, contains preliminary excavation reports, contributions on archaeological problems, studies on different aspects of history, institutions, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and history of art of ancient Iran, as well as on cultural exchanges and relations between Iran and its neighbours.
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