The visual culture of early modern Iran is being put on display at the Chester Beatty museum in Dublin as part of a new exhibition, 'Meeting in Isfahan', which opens today.
The exhibition brings together the collections of the Chester Beatty with loans from the National Museum of Ireland.
In 1598, the city of Isfahan became Iran's new capital, signalling a vibrant transformation of political, spiritual and cultural life under the Safavid dynasty.
With works from the Chester Beatty’s Persian, Turkish, Arabic and Armenian collections, as well as early printed books and maps from Europe, this exhibition features paintings and drawings by important artists of the Safavid period, from Rezā ʿAbbāsī to Muhammad Zaman.
