A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features)
Decoration plays an important role in Islamic-Persian architecture. Being a synthesis of ancient traditions, Islamicinstructions, and different periods’ developments, this style of architecture applies various kinds of ornamentationthat convey spiritual values and concepts besides beauty. Although i...
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| description | Decoration plays an important role in Islamic-Persian architecture. Being a synthesis of ancient traditions, Islamicinstructions, and different periods’ developments, this style of architecture applies various kinds of ornamentationthat convey spiritual values and concepts besides beauty. Although in Islamic lands and civilization, mosques haveconstantly been the focus of religious attention with magnificent decorations, other places such as bathhouses(hammām)—being in direct connection with ceremonious purification—enjoyed such characteristics as well.Despite the fact that there have remained few pre-Safavid samples of historic bathhouses, such buildings aboundfrom this period on. Studying these works acquaints us with the ornamental styles of the traditional bathhousesand makes us familiar with the evolution of decorations in later periods. The present study, conducted usinganalytical-descriptive and historical-comparative methods, aimed to investigate the developing trends emergedand continued in bathhouses with an emphasis on such decorative elements as tilework, wall painting, lime work,etc. from the Safavid era to the Qajar era. The results showed that Safavid architects’ achievements in bathhousesdecorations were manifested, as in other fields of art and culture, in those of later periods, especially the Qajarera. By increasing the motifs and expanding the spaces, Qajar artists extended and applied those methods andinnovations in some ornamental elements preserving the decorative tradition of Islamic-Persian architecture,particularly in public bathhouses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6619d08bace54aef89428eeb412e713a2023-02-17T06:01:56ZengArchaeological Sciences Research Centre, University of Sistan and BaluchestanIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies2251-743X2676-29192018-04-0181416310.22111/ijas.2018.51245124A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features)Marzyeh Ghasemi0Gholam- Ali Hatam1Farhad Tehrani2Department of Art, Zabol University, Zabol, Iran.Department of Art, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.Department of Architecture, Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, Qazvin, Iran.Decoration plays an important role in Islamic-Persian architecture. Being a synthesis of ancient traditions, Islamicinstructions, and different periods’ developments, this style of architecture applies various kinds of ornamentationthat convey spiritual values and concepts besides beauty. Although in Islamic lands and civilization, mosques haveconstantly been the focus of religious attention with magnificent decorations, other places such as bathhouses(hammām)—being in direct connection with ceremonious purification—enjoyed such characteristics as well.Despite the fact that there have remained few pre-Safavid samples of historic bathhouses, such buildings aboundfrom this period on. Studying these works acquaints us with the ornamental styles of the traditional bathhousesand makes us familiar with the evolution of decorations in later periods. The present study, conducted usinganalytical-descriptive and historical-comparative methods, aimed to investigate the developing trends emergedand continued in bathhouses with an emphasis on such decorative elements as tilework, wall painting, lime work,etc. from the Safavid era to the Qajar era. The results showed that Safavid architects’ achievements in bathhousesdecorations were manifested, as in other fields of art and culture, in those of later periods, especially the Qajarera. By increasing the motifs and expanding the spaces, Qajar artists extended and applied those methods andinnovations in some ornamental elements preserving the decorative tradition of Islamic-Persian architecture,particularly in public bathhouses.https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_5124_c1aed0035611ea440225c11debfd9708.pdfbathhousearchitectureiransafavidqajardecoration |
| spellingShingle | Marzyeh Ghasemi Gholam- Ali Hatam Farhad Tehrani A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies bathhouse architecture iran safavid qajar decoration |
| title | A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) |
| title_full | A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) |
| title_fullStr | A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) |
| title_short | A Survey of the Persian Historic Bathhouses from the Safavid to the Qajar Period (With an Emphasis on Decorations and Architectural Features) |
| title_sort | survey of the persian historic bathhouses from the safavid to the qajar period with an emphasis on decorations and architectural features |
| topic | bathhouse architecture iran safavid qajar decoration |
| url | https://ijas.usb.ac.ir/article_5124_c1aed0035611ea440225c11debfd9708.pdf |
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