Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Qajar art sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Qajar art (1789 – 1925), no earlier influence is recorded for it.
Qajar art was the architecture, paintings, and other art forms produced during the Qajar era, from 1781 to 1925, in Iran (Persia).
The boom in artistic expression that occurred during the Qajar era was a side effect of the period of relative peace that accompanied the rule of Agha Mohammad Khan and his descendants. With his ascension, the bloody turmoil of the 18th century came to a close and made it possible for peacetime arts to flourish in Iran.
Most notably, Qajar art is recognisable for its distinctive style of portraiture. Read more ↗
