Size isn't everything — even when it comes to visual art. But sometimes blowing things up doesn't hurt either. The American painter Conley Harris took this philosophy to the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

A happy and energetic race of scholars are archeologists whose camping ground is the Near East. Except for rare cases like the lateT. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but ...

Check out Colleene Fesko's appraisal of a Hovsep Pushman "The Persian Book" painting in this Season 27 exclusive digital appraisal. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

Installation view of The Rose Empire: Masterpieces of 19th Century Persian Art at the Louvre-Lens (photo by Laurent Lamacz, courtesy Louvre-Lens) Binding decorated with flowers and birds, Iran (ca ...

Can you explain what this piece of art is? It's a miniature that's probably about 5 inches by about 3 inches. It's a hand-painted peacock on a bone-type material. So the detail the artist puts in, ...

His Imperial Majesty Reza Khan Pahlavi listened to entreaty and, with a grand gesture, has given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London’s ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Rietberg Zürich, Sept. 27, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014. Essays by Rudolph P. Matthee, Cyrus Ala'i, Birgitt Borkopp-Restle, Paulina ...

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...