Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 associate alzahra uni
2 MA student of painting at Al-Zahra University
Abstract
In the second half of his rule, Shah Tahmasb Safavi took the path of extremism. In this regard, women, especially court women, stayed at home. Tahmasabi's Falnama (962-967 AH) was written in the same period and by his order. Ervin Panofsky (1892-1968) is one of the art history researchers who methodized iconology. He attributed three levels of meaning to the reading of the work of art, in which the researcher looks for the symbolic values of a society that the artist unconsciously reflects in his work. This research seeks to answer the question that according to Ervin Panofsky's opinion, what institutionalized belief about women is reflected in the painting of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise in Tahmasbi's Falnama?
The aim of the research is to find the roots of Shah Tahmasib's beliefs about the position of women and its reflection in the painting of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from heaven in Tahmasbi's Falnama.
The research is conducted in a qualitative and comparative-analytical manner and its purpose is fundamental. The method of collecting materials has been done in a library style and with an iconological approach. A statistical example is the painting of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from heaven in Tahmasabi's Falnama. Conclusion: The image is influenced by the Qur'an, but there are elements in the image (Adam's reproachful state towards Eve, peacock, snake-dragon) that are not found in the Qur'an. So, the artist was inspired by other texts that were taken from ancient sources. It seems that the root of women's restrictions in this period can be seen as extreme beliefs that come from ancient metamorphoses such as the war between male and female gender
s, Eve's committing the first sin and blaming the female gender; Therefore, the painting is a document that reflects these beliefs about women in the patriarchal society of Shah Tahmasab's era.
Keywords
- : Erwin Panofsky, Iconology, Safavid dynasty, Tahmasbi'
- s Falnama, The expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise, Women
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