Today’s Life and War
Photography by Gohar Dashti.
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pārsa · scrapbook of pictures, videos, poems, articles and memories of my cultural heritage.
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The Carpet Merchant
Jean Léon Gérôme (1887)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Stumbled on this lovely painting via Michele Roohani.
Kiosk - Love for Speed (Eshgh-e-Sorat)
Power of love, or the love for power
Modernity or traditionalism…
(some of the subtitles are not accurate)
Persian Princess by abdolrashidi:
A typical Iranian oil painting of the 18th Century. It depicts a Persian Princess decorated with jewelry and elegant dress. The make up is very much traditional Iranian. Look at the eyebrows, lips and chicks. The long hair dressing is also very traditional Iranian.
Farhad Moshiri
A scene of the story of Leili and Majnun as adapted/written by the great Persian romantic poet Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi (1141-1209 CE).
.هزاران دوست كم اند، يك دشمن زياد است
Thousands of friends are far too few, one enemy is too much.
