نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 دانشجوی دکتری تاریخ تطبیقی هنر اسلامی، دانشگاه هنر.

2 دانشیار دانشگاه هنر تهران

چکیده

       تعداد نسخ تاریخی مصور به جا مانده از عصر صفوی در قیاس با سایر نسخ مصور آن عصر و همچنین در قیاس با نسخ تاریخی مصور همسایگان مسلمان صفویان، عثمانیان و مغولان هند، نسبتاً ناچیز است. همین امر سبب شده است که پژوهشگران صفویان را نسبت به تصویرگری تاریخ بی­توجه قلمداد کنند و این ویژگی را گسستی نسبت به سنت تصویرگری ایران بدانند. از آنجا که مطالعات زیادی در زمینه­ی تصویرگری تاریخ در عصر صفوی صورت نپذیرفته است، این مقاله ضمن معرفی و ارزیابی آرای پژوهشگرانی که در این راستا نظریه پردازی کرده­اند، و اشاره به کاستی های رویکرد موجود، اهمیت تصویرگری تاریخ نزد صفویان و کارکرد این تصاویر در نظام صفوی را تبیین می­نماید. این پژوهش که با استناد به منابع کتابخانه­ای و اسناد تصویری به روش توصیفی-تحلیلی انجام پذیرفته، ثابت می­کند صفویان نه تنها به تصویرگری تاریخ بی­توجه نبودند، بلکه علاوه بر تصویرگری نسخ خطی، ابزارهای دیگری نیز برای تصویرگری تاریخ در اختیار داشتند و تعداد آثار بجا مانده معیار مناسبی برای قضاوت رویکرد آنان به تصویرگری تاریخ نیست. نتایج این پژوهش نشان می­دهد که آنچه تصویرگری تاریخ نزد صفویان را متمایز ساخته است، نه در کمیت، بلکه در کیفیت و کاربرد این تصاویر است.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

A study in importance and operation of the illustration of history in Safavid era

نویسندگان [English]

  • samira Royan 1
  • samad samanain 2

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2

چکیده [English]

The number of illustrated historical manuscripts which survived from Safavid time, are very few in comparison with other illustrated literary works of this era and also the illustrated historical texts of their Muslim neighbors-Ottoman and Mughal of India. So, Scholars believe that Safavids were not interested in the illustration of their history, and that it shows a break from Iranian tradition of illustrating history which came back at least to Sasanids. Scholars consider this unwillingness to the illustrating of history as a result of the qualities of Safavid painting, such as following common models and avoiding realism, which separated their painting from their counterparts. In respect, the scholarly writings on picturing history in Safavid era are also rare in comparison with the surveys on other artistic products of Safavid history, and the importance and function of Safavid historical pictures are almost unstudied. So, this article besides introducing scholars’ approaches to the illustrating of history in Safavid time, and evaluating their comments on this issue, tries to give a better vision to illustrating history in Safavid Persia by surveying where and why they illustrated their history. Through the written and visual collected data and with a descriptive-analytic method, we will prove that, contrary to the common approach, Safavids were not reluctant to picturing their history, but they had so many ways for doing this. Illustrating Nonhistorical manuscripts (especially Shahnama), wall painting and single page painting are the mostly used grounds for Safavids to illustrate their history. To some extent, Wall paintings and single page paintings by historical themes, in the second half of Safavid era, replaced the illustrated historical manuscripts in earlier times, which may cause the fewer number of survived illustrated historical manuscripts. By the way we will show that the number of remained illustrated manuscripts cannot show that Safavids hadn’t illustrated their histories, because many environmental or human factors may Couse damage or loss of these products.
In fact what made Safavid illustration of history different, was not the number of illustrated historical manuscripts or even the number of miniatures in the whole manuscript, but were the aim and operation of these pictures in their visual system. They didn’t show historical details and were totally ignorant about the facts.  They didn’t show the real face of real individuals, but the ideal portrait of ideal heroes. Safavid historical illustrations, unlike those of Ottomans and Mughals of India, were not the exact visual documents of history which show everything in the way it looks, instead, they were visual representations of the glory and might of the court or anyone who supported the illustrating project. So they were really important in showing of prestige and dignity and also projecting the visual ideals of visible things, such as the king or things related to him.

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