Two Safavid Paintings: An Essay in Interpretation

Grabar, Oleg; Natif, Mika

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“…Dogs and cats are commonly depicted in Safavid paintings (Grabar and Natif, 2001; Hosseini Rad, 2014) but are not commonly portrayed as pets. The woman's pose, environment, lack of headgear, and the presence of elements such as wine and a dog all support the hypothesis that she is a sex worker.…”

Section: Following Safavid Women's Paintings Onlinementioning

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Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums

Rahbari

2023

Journal of Material Culture

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In this article, I trace Safavid paintings depicting women's imagery online and explore the possibility of digitally mapping Safavid (1501–1736) paintings featuring women on publicly accessible platforms. Along with the practice of online mapping that led me to digital museums, I investigated the descriptions presented on three digitized paintings on different platforms to address the questions, “Where and how can Safavid paintings be digitally encountered” and “In light of the theoretical developments in the scholarship on pre-modern discourses of Safavid gender and sexuality, how do the descriptions of Safavid paintings reflect gender discourses online?” By following Safavid paintings of women online and probing the textual descriptions attached to them, and using netnographic research methods to document my experience and encounter with the digitized Safavid paintings, I explore whether the online descriptions accompanying the images could contribute to the making of decolonial knowledge about non-Western gender discourses.

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Section: Following Safavid Women's Paintings Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums

Rahbari

2023

Journal of Material Culture

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Two Safavid Paintings: An Essay in Interpretation

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Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums

Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women's imagery in digital museums

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