Quickly, in the moved back parts of the Abbasid empire , the capacity émiette and becomes to the hands governors. In Iran, they are the Tahirides, the Samanides, the Ghaznavides, the Ghurides which dispute the capacity. Art is then an essential medium to continue vis-a-vis its neighbor.

Structure and town planning

Big cities are created, like Nichapour and Ghazna. Unfortunately, the brick (cooked and believed), which constitutes the materials the main thing in Iran, prevents us from knowing them well. The Iwan S (rooms arched open on a side by a large arc registered in a rectangular framing) start to be used.

Religious architecture

It is at this period that construction is begun from the Grande Mosque of Isfahan, even if it were largely modified thereafter.

Funerary architecture

It is at this period that the various types of funerary architecture appear: mausoleums under funerary cupola and turns. The most known example is the Mausolée of Samanides to Bukhara, where is the Cénotaphe of Isma' it Samanide, one of the most important leaders of this dynasty. It is about a cube under brick cupola of ten meters on side, open on its four faces by a door. Its decoration exploits mainly the provision of bricks.

Another monument interesting (and prone to many interrogations) is the Gunbad-i Kabus, a funerary tower of spangled plan without decorations. Its origin is rather mysterious, but it could point out the rites Zoroastriens of desiccation of the corpses in top of turns.

Objects

Ceramics

Three types of decoration of Céramique S are to be mentioned: the kaleidoscopic decoration, the decoration marbled and the decoration with the Slip on slip under glaze.

Ceramics with kaleidoscopic decoration is often at yellow bottom, with human reasons and animals in black and green laid out on all surfaces it parts. One notes a horror of the vacuum: the least piece of the object comprises a decoration, and the reasons themselves heavily are often decorated; no surface is left plain.

The marbled decoration could draw its origin from Chinese ceramics. The potter lets run various glazes coloured on the part before putting it at the furnace, which produces marblings of various colors (brown, green and white in particular). Sometimes, the part was esgraffiée before (one engraved reasons on its surface), which enriches the decoration.

The last type is that of the decoration of slip on slip under glaze. Ceramics, with often brown color at the beginning first of all is entirely covered with a diluted layer of clay (of the slip) coloured in white. Then, the reasons (often geometrical or calligraphic) are painted over with a black slip. The whole is covered with a transparent glaze then carried to the furnace. One thus obtains a white part with black decorations (sometimes of the red is also employed).

Others

The art of metal still points out very strongly art Sassanide: the parts with fine walls present a contrast between gilded and silver plated surfaces. Several fabrics of this time are also known.

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