none1noThe present contribution offers an overview of the main problems concerning the representation of the planets in the pre-Islamic Iranian world, the origin of their denominations, their astral roles and the reasons behind their demonization in the Zoroastrian and Manichaean frameworks. This is a preliminary attempt to resume the planetary iconography and iconology in western and eastern Iranian sources, involving also external visual data, such as those coming from Dunhuang and the Chinese world. The article offers an intellectual journey into a net of mutual cultural and spiritual relations, focusing on the image of the heaven (and of its celestial beings), thereby proposing a new synthesis and highlighting a number of intercultural ...
The present contribution outlines three different but partly related subjects: 1) the origin of Ira...
Abstract : The ornementation on chlorite vases and objects recently discovered in the Jiroft area of...
Problem definition: Wonder painting is one of the obscure and deep-rooted terms used in relation wit...
The present contribution offers an overview of the main problems concerning the representation of th...
none1noQuesto volume è stato redatto nell'ambito di una ricerca intrapresa in collaborazione con il ...
A Walk through the Iranian Heavens is an innovative and focused study by the well-known scholar Anto...
In the present article I will attempt to examine some main topics that sharply oppose Zoroastrian an...
The current paper presents the status of our knowledge about the classification patterns adopted in...
Abstract: The ancient Iranian cultural heritage to the Roman Empire and early Christianism includes...
Any discussion about ‘paradise’ in the Iranian framework must focus on two aspects: the first one co...
none1noThe present article aims to call attention to a subject of ancient uranography, in which the ...
This study seeks to answer the question of how light has been manifested in Iranian miniature and if...
Articolo-recensione dedicato ad una monografia concernente l'iconografia e l'iconologia religiosa zo...
The Book of Luminaries contains two enigmatic details which can be compared to Iranian ideas: the co...
From the earliest times, the intercourse between Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau was ceaseless, ...
The present contribution outlines three different but partly related subjects: 1) the origin of Ira...
Abstract : The ornementation on chlorite vases and objects recently discovered in the Jiroft area of...
Problem definition: Wonder painting is one of the obscure and deep-rooted terms used in relation wit...
The present contribution offers an overview of the main problems concerning the representation of th...
none1noQuesto volume è stato redatto nell'ambito di una ricerca intrapresa in collaborazione con il ...
A Walk through the Iranian Heavens is an innovative and focused study by the well-known scholar Anto...
In the present article I will attempt to examine some main topics that sharply oppose Zoroastrian an...
The current paper presents the status of our knowledge about the classification patterns adopted in...
Abstract: The ancient Iranian cultural heritage to the Roman Empire and early Christianism includes...
Any discussion about ‘paradise’ in the Iranian framework must focus on two aspects: the first one co...
none1noThe present article aims to call attention to a subject of ancient uranography, in which the ...
This study seeks to answer the question of how light has been manifested in Iranian miniature and if...
Articolo-recensione dedicato ad una monografia concernente l'iconografia e l'iconologia religiosa zo...
The Book of Luminaries contains two enigmatic details which can be compared to Iranian ideas: the co...
From the earliest times, the intercourse between Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau was ceaseless, ...
The present contribution outlines three different but partly related subjects: 1) the origin of Ira...
Abstract : The ornementation on chlorite vases and objects recently discovered in the Jiroft area of...
Problem definition: Wonder painting is one of the obscure and deep-rooted terms used in relation wit...