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...Middle East attempting to button down contracts that would ensure France oil for the next decade and beyond. He was followed closely by Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister Hans Friderichs and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style...
...artistic disintegration had been sown at the very beginning of the century. From the first, as Professor Welch comments, seventeenth century Persian art relied more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection...