Structural analysis of the one-piece watercolor painting of the battle of Hazrat Abbas and Yazid's army and the representation of real war tools in the Qajar period.

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor, Department of Painting, Faculty of Art, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/toa.2025.2041397.1455
Abstract
In Iranian paintings centered on the theme of the Karbala war in the Qajar period, most of the large works are depicted in natural sizes and with paints and oils, and small and single period works were limited and rare in this period. In this research, a single area of the war between Hazrat Abbas and Yazid's army is discussed; This single patch is in the form of a single leaf and has distinctive features with other paintings in this period, and it documents the differences in style and execution with the paintings of this period. Identifying the general structures of Qajar period painting shows the importance of the author's role in giving meaning to the form or image in social conventions, and the representation of tools is inspired by real war examples. The purpose of this research is to study the structure and introduction of an unintroduced single patch related to the war of Karbala and belonging to the Qajar period, which is depicted with the characteristics of this school in a small size and with the impression of the colors of this period, a realistic representation of war tools in this painting. It is important. The main research question in this article is as follows: What are the structural features of this painting and how is it influenced by real war tools? The research method in this article is descriptive-analytical and qualitative research,

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